eith good intentions. Well meaning Nancy Pelosi comprimissed the last
vestiges of our rivacy, our liberty and our very ability to travel by
sheparding the National Security reform act through Congress
Wednesday. More Republicans had the courage to stand against the
President on this act than Democrats. From the New York
Timmes online...
U.S. to Specify Documents Needed for Driver's Licenses
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: December 9, 2004
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - The intelligence agency overhaul given final
approval on Wednesday by the Senate also reorganizes the way the
states grant driver's licenses, a change that civil liberties
advocates and some security experts say could have far-reaching
consequences.
Issuing driver's licenses has always been mostly a state function, but
the new law requires the federal Department of Homeland Security to
issue regulations on what documentation a state must require before it
can grant a license. It also requires that the licenses be "machine
readable," which will probably be accomplished through a magnetic
stripe or a bar code or both.
The printed format of the piece of plastic will still be under state
control. But to a person equipped with a reader, that will make little
difference, because Washington will set the minimum national
requirements for the machine-readable data.
The federal government will gain control through airport checkpoints
and other places where federal agencies demand identification. After a
phase-in period, the government will refuse to accept licenses that do
not comply with the standard. The same rules will apply to photo
identification issued by states to nondrivers.
"We're really looking at a national ID system," said James C. Plummer
Jr., a policy analyst at Consumer Alert. "...
and from Scripps Howard... House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Cal.,
said the legislation would make the nation safer and "bring some
comfort" to the 9/11 families who advocated its passage.
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