Bush Endorses 'National Driver's License'
Regulations in Iraq War Spending Bill
WASHINGTON -- The federal government is moving ahead with a blizzard of new identification card proposals affecting military personnel, government workers and even ordinary Americans renewing their driver's licenses. Privacy advocates say the identification cards reflect Washington's embrace of fancy new "smart-card" technologies allowing pictures or fingerprints to be read by computers. But critics argue the cards give a false sense of security because they can be either forged, faked, bought - or just ignored by terrorists with a determination to kill Americans. On Tuesday, President Bush endorsed moves in Congress to tack federal regulations for state-issued driver's licenses onto the bill authorizing $81 billion in additional spending for the war in Iraq.
Posted by Editor at April 28, 2005 03:21 PM
