December 14, 2006

Government Working Against Its Citizens
ID Theft Is Allowed and Even Encouraged

Romans: The president has the authority to make this a priority in immigration reform, but has not done so. Instead, the GAO finds there is overlap, disarray and agencies working at cross-purposes... One attorney today said, "How come you can have warrantless wiretaps and no one worries about privacy laws, but something as pervasive as this raises all these red flags in Washington?"
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- December 13
Paul Donnelly, Immigration Consultant: The government is not doing a very good job at all. Everybody knows this, and we've known this for 20 years. We have to get past the idea that there is some "privacy right" to steal an American's identity.
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Peter Stergios, McCarter & English: Somebody or some group of those with authority to do it has to simplify the law, clarify the law, and eliminate all the ways that identity thefts can carry on their business.
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Dobbs: ....By the way, just to be absolutely crystal clear, the president of the United States, with one sweep of his pen, could change all of that through executive order.
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