[IP] d: REAL ID Semantics from the White House
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From: Richard Forno <rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 11, 2005 9:34:40 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bruce Schneier
<schneier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: REAL ID Semantics from the White House
Note how the official White House statement on the bill containing the
controversial REAL ID Act makes no mention of it or anything relating to
'Homeland Security.'
From:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050511-5.html
Statement on H.R. 1268, the "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
Act for
Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005"
On Wednesday, May 11 2005, the President signed into law:
H.R. 1268, the "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for
Defense, the
Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005" which provides
emergency
supplemental FY 2005 appropriations for military operations, relief
and
reconstruction, and related activities critical to building stable
democracies
in Iraq and Afghanistan. This Act also provides funds to assist
those suffered
in the aftermath of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004.
(that's all they said)
Yes, by burying the REAL ID Act in the 'must pass' military spending
bill,
our wonderful legislators did another rope-a-dope on the American
public.
And in this case, as I (and others) have written recently, their
efforts on
enacting national ID won't do much to improve security anyway.
-rick
Infowarrior.org
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