DHS: Real ID is 'pro-consumer' and 'antiterrorism'

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Tue, 03/04/2008 - 11:00am

WASHINGTON--One of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's most prominent Real ID cheerleaders made a more timid than usual push on Tuesday for states to adopt the controversial identification card standards.

Stewart Baker, the department's assistant secretary for policy, has touted what he perceives as the privacy-protective, ...



 

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