Those Lying Eyes
Spitzer says licenses will help ID people when they really
won't
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Eliot Spitzer |
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Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- November 2
Spitzer: The
DMV database is perhaps the most important database that we use
as prosecutors in order to find out who's who, where is somebody,
who are they, where are they, where they have they been....
Michael Amato, Montgomery County, New York, Sheriff: According
to the commissioner of the DMV, the information that they harvest
from these driver's licenses will not be shared with local law
enforcement right now and it's not going to be shared with anti-terrorism
or federal organizations. And that's a concern. They have stated
that, if we do want this information, we have to file court papers
to request it...
Pilgrim: The sheriffs are quite concerned, because they
say it's so time-consuming for an individual to file all the
court papers, if they have an individual in custody. And that's
the way they are going to have access to this information. And
it's been misrepresented to them.
Dobbs: ....When a governor lies to the people of the state,
he's got to be called for it....
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