d: REAL ID Semantics from the White House

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Date: May 11, 2005 9:34:40 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Bruce Schneier  
<schneier () counterpane com>
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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