November 5, 2007

Those Lying Eyes
Spitzer says licenses will help ID people when they really won't

Eliot Spitzer
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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