FC: Former Virginia guv Gilmore waxes libertarian on nat'l id cards

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: Anonymous User <anonymous () remailer havenco com>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Congress' chief anti-terror cop opposes national ID card
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 03:04:36 +0000 (UTC)

>From Fox News, available online at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48875,00.html

Gilmore Opposes Extreme Anti-Terror Laws
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON - Cyber-policy guru and Congress' chief anti-terror cop said
Tuesday he fully expects another terrorist attack on the homeland, but
added he opposes knee-jerk security measures that do little real good
while infringing greatly on civil liberties.

Former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, now the head of a congressionally
appointed anti-terror commission, told an audience at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., that a national
ID card would be "too creepy for me."

We cannot, Gilmore said, "let the terrorists redefine our society for
us."

Gilmore's post was created by Congress in 1999 but became much more
critical after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

"It (Sept. 11) created an environment of change in American society and
culture," he said. "A change for the worse."

Gilmore said intelligence gathered by law enforcement authorities
indicates that terrorists are attempting to develop programs that
infiltrate and disable U.S. computer systems.

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