The funding would provide the necessary startup costs for the minimum IT equipment to set up the data sharing. as well as additional funds to facilitate travel and professional exchanges. Interpol currently maintains a database of 14.4 million lost and stolen internationally recognized travel documents from 123 countries. This includes 67 million passports. of which over a third are from countries that participate in the visa waiver program. Interpol currently has a list of over 48.000 blank passports that have been stolen around the world. Blank passports are better than blank checks for terrorists. as the 9/11 Commission rightly concluded.