Real ID — NH and MT Licenses OKed by DHS
Hew Hampshire and Montana faced down the Department of Homeland Security and received assurances that their drivers licenses will be accepted at airports after the May deadline for Real ID. Now only Maine and South Carolina are left as the remaining states without either Real ID compliance or an approved extension of the federal deadline.
According to the wired.com report:
That lets the Bush administration claim credit for implementing Real ID, even though no states will begin offering Real ID-compliant licenses until at least 2010, well into someone else’s term at the White House.
And the states get to claim victory over the federal bullies.
And it leaves time for Congress to step in, if it wishes, to actually hold hearings on identification policy and figure out if a de facto national ID, complete with a national biometric database, is really the right solution to preventing someone from blowing up a mall full of shoppers.
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