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Bush administration vs. Homeland Security.(Insider Report)

The New American

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"Almost two years to the day after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released an astonishing report stating that its undercover investigators were 100 percent successful in obtaining valid state driver's licenses using fake identities," observed security specialist Bruce Mandelblit in an October 3 Newsmax Internet column. Some of the 9-11 hijackers "used illicitly obtained state driver's licenses to help carry out their wicked deeds," he continues, sensibly observing that bogus IDs "are a direct and genuine challenge to our homeland security...."

As noted elsewhere in this issue (see page 25), our porous southern border with Mexico has been a major entry point for illegal aliens from terrorist-sponsoring nations in Asia and the Middle East. But astonishingly, the Bush administration seems rather blase about the potential security threat posed by illegal aliens from Mexico using "matricula consular" cards (IDs ...

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