TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Monday, October 11, 2004

From Speaker Hastert's 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act, written in conjunction with the White House:

SEC. 3053. LINKING OF DATABASES.

(a) In General- To be eligible to receive any grant or other type of financial assistance made available under this subtitle, a State shall participate in the interstate compact regarding sharing of driver license data, known as the `Driver License Agreement', in order to provide electronic access by a State to information contained in the motor vehicle databases of all other States.

This bill and the Senate's Collins-Lieberman bill, with John McCain's crypto-national-ID amendment, is currently in a conference committee. The Congresscritters hope to pass something for Bush to sign before the election.

The "Driver License Agreement" (DLA) mentioned in Sec. 3053 is a document written up by AAMVA with federal grant money. AAMVA is the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the trade organization for the state DMV bureaucracies.

The DLA spells out a program for interlinked biometric identity databases hooked into state driver's licenses. But if you check the definitions on page four of the DLA, you'll see that it is not just states of the USA they have in mind:

From the Driver License Agreement, July 2004:

Jurisdiction - A state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, a territory or province of Canada or any state of the Republic of Mexico or the Federal District of Mexico.

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