--- From: Anonymous User <anonymousat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: Congress' chief anti-terror cop opposes national ID card Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 03:04:36 +0000 (UTC) >From Fox News, available online at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48875,00.html Gilmore Opposes Extreme Anti-Terror Laws Tuesday, March 26, 2002 Kelley Beaucar Vlahos WASHINGTON - Cyber-policy guru and Congress' chief anti-terror cop said Tuesday he fully expects another terrorist attack on the homeland, but added he opposes knee-jerk security measures that do little real good while infringing greatly on civil liberties. Former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, now the head of a congressionally appointed anti-terror commission, told an audience at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., that a national ID card would be "too creepy for me." We cannot, Gilmore said, "let the terrorists redefine our society for us." Gilmore's post was created by Congress in 1999 but became much more critical after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. "It (Sept. 11) created an environment of change in American society and culture," he said. "A change for the worse." Gilmore said intelligence gathered by law enforcement authorities indicates that terrorists are attempting to develop programs that infiltrate and disable U.S. computer systems. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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