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More $^%# From Janet Napolitano about Pass ID

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posted on Jul, 17 2009 @ 08:44 PM
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Testimony of Secretary Napolitano before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, "Identification Security" (Oral Testimony) given July 15, 2009


Release Date: July 16, 2009 Dirksen Senate Office Building



Above is the link to her oral testimony.


You folks probably all know about Real ID. It was the Fed's last push for a federal ID card. Since a lot of states have refused to participate in this program, and some going so far as to pass a law FORBIDDING themselves from participating, they changed the name and added some additional fear mongering.


As you noted, Chairman [Senator Joe] Lieberman, 13 states—I think Missouri being the most recent last night—had actually enacted legislation barring themselves from implementing REAL ID. And 13 other states have passed resolutions opposing REAL ID. We cannot have national standards for drivers’ licenses when the states, themselves, refuse to participate. Now, the practical problem with REAL ID is one of timeliness, and that sets the urgency for Pass ID. Because, under REAL ID—as of December 31st of this year—states are required to attest that they are implementing REAL ID for their driver’s licenses so that they can be accepted for things like boarding a plane.



Chairman Lieberman: So—if I may interrupt you—that means that assuming nothing else happens in between—that it is—under the law, the driver’s licenses issued by the states would not be accepted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to gain passage.

Secretary Napolitano: That's correct, Mr. Chairman—not without additional screening by TSA—and one can only contemplate—just the inconvenience in airline travel that could occur if everyone has to undergo additional screening because they don't have a REAL ID compliant driver’s license.

Chairman Lieberman: In other words, the kind of secondary screening that goes on now—if for some reason you forget your license or something—that would have to happen to everybody.

Secretary Napolitano: That's right, Senator.



So without the Pass ID, we will be more inconvenienced at the airport? Hmm...makes the case for me...sign me up.


And then on to the propaganda:


Now we get to the fundamental reason why we have these laws in the first place. We go back to the 9/11 Commission report. We need secure identification to thwart potential terrorists; law enforcement needs to have confidence that an ID holder is who he or she claims to be; and—as the 9/11 Commission report said—to terrorists, travel documents are just as important as weapons.


She is basing the pushing of the Pass ID down out throats in the guise of protecting us from terrorism...sigh...again...


—these differences contained within Pass ID make it a bill that—if passed and implemented before Dec. 31 of this year—will fix a bill that was flawed from the outset.


..and just to drive it home, let's throw a little bit of urgency into it...we've become really used to that over the last couple months. But in this case, if we 'hurry up', we can fix something that was 'broken' when the dreamed the crap up last time....and you have to admit 'Pass' sounds a lot friendlier than 'REAL', right?





[edit on 17-7-2009 by KSPigpen]



posted on Jul, 17 2009 @ 08:57 PM
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From what I understand people were going to be inconvenience at the airport if they didn't have a real ID as well. I also seem to gather that she wants to replaces Congresses Real ID with that of Governors. In other words, she wants to give that power back to the states with some of the same goals as REAL ID rather than have the FEDS mandate..


Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week said she is working with governors to repeal the Real ID Act, which was passed in 2005 and went into effect last year.

The bill is popular in Washington, but is scorned by many governors who bear the responsibility and cost of validating that holders of driver's licenses are citizens or legal residents of the United States.

Napolitano, former governor of Arizona, said she has met with governors of both parties recently "to look at a way to repeal Real ID." She said she wants to substitute the federal law with "something else that pivots off of the driver's license but accomplishes some of the same goals. And we hope to be able to announce something on that fairly soon."


www.cnn.com...

Congress is against her plans. Don't know where Obama stands on this.


Lieberman, GOP Slam Napolitano's Real ID Revisions


www.newsmax.com...



posted on Jul, 17 2009 @ 09:19 PM
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Funny, she doesn't want to mention anything about terrorism until they need to fear monger something through.

A "Pass ID" or "Real ID" doesn't make any sense when you really think about it. It just makes easier for them to fake.



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