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US passports still vulnerable to fraud
Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Thursday, July 29, 2010 | By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 08/01/2010 1:23:59 AM PDT by thecodont

(07-29) 12:33 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver's licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work. For the second time in two years, government investigators exposed a gaping hole in the country's security by deliberately using fraudulent material to obtain passports.

The investigation by the Government Accountability Office, detailed on Capitol Hill Thursday, demonstrates that despite security overhauls since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the State Department's system for issuing passports remains vulnerable to fraud.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/29/national/w110604D49.DTL#ixzz0vLAGykYR

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; identitytheft; passports; security

1 posted on 08/01/2010 1:24:03 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

I would bet that at least 10,000 passports are out there...gained by fraudulent means. There’s not alot of methods that they could dream up...to maximize on validity. If you asked the US government to provide a list of all American citizens alive today....they couldn’t do it. And if they did...I’d suspect it was only 98 percent accurate.


2 posted on 08/01/2010 1:44:00 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: STARWISE; maggief; Liz; penelopesire

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3 posted on 08/01/2010 1:49:22 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: thecodont

Obambie’s puppet masters are experts on fake documents, especially birth certificates.


4 posted on 08/01/2010 2:03:27 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: thecodont

Just how can birth certificates with mother and father’s maiden names, social security no.s, driver’s licenses along with marriage licenses not be secure in the hands of postal workers?


5 posted on 08/01/2010 2:12:53 AM PDT by poobear ("The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: thecodont

The incompetent boobs in the Federal Government have had nine years to close these flaws and they have failed.


6 posted on 08/01/2010 2:28:14 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: hoosiermama; stephenjohnbanker; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS; Kimberly GG
US passports still vulnerable to fraud.

This is happening all over. We need to make a HUGE ruckus about it. They're so brazen. WRT the recent spy story, one couple, both born in Russia, were living in New Jersey using the last name “Murphy.” One neighbor commented that he thought it was odd that people with Russian accents should be named “Murphy.”

Alien latinos are infiltrating US govt agencies---they scammed themselves into the CIA and FBI for the purpose of rigging the system to aid and abet Third World corruption on US soil.

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REFERENCE In August 2004, the US Department of State stopped accepting passport applications processed by the Hudson County Clerk's office. Birth certificates issued as proof of citizenship were also not being accepted.....due to an ongoing investigation by the State Department and the U.S. Department of Justice into the alleged sale of such documents.

In early August, Richard Boucher, a spokesperson for the State Dept was quoted by AP: "The investigation has developed facts indicating that we cannot rely on the accuracy of information on passport applications that were processed by the county clerk's office."

BACKSTORY As Hudson County Clerk, Javier Inclan (citzenship unknown) was manufacturing identities for illegals---stealing the info from legit Americans.

In 2000, Javier Inclan was: (a) the Hudson County Clerk, (b) bagman for the New Jersey Democratic Party machine, and went straight to the top---(3) appointed as then-NJ governor Corzine's Deputy COS.

COURT TESTIMONY REVEALS Javier Inclan (who was not charged) testified he carried envelopes of cash from Third World human trafficer Luisa Medrano to the Mayor (who was convicted of corruption). Medrano testified at trial that at one time she owned 13 residential and commercial properties----one property was worth $1 million. Medrano also controlled six liquor licenses (it's illegal to have more than two in New Jersey). This mamasita's got more than revenue from tequila shots going into her bank account.

Medrano does not even speak English. She was bringing into the US underage latino girls using forged documents---then worked them as prostitutes. One got pregnant and was thrown down the stairs by Medrano's viscious henchmen to kill the inconvenient baby.

7 posted on 08/01/2010 4:07:32 AM PDT by Liz
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To: pepsionice
If you asked the US government to provide a list of all American citizens alive today....they couldn’t do it.

Personally, I'd rather it stayed that way. I understand the security problems we're up against, but I worry about the government's knowing everything about us.

8 posted on 08/01/2010 4:44:48 AM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: Liz

Obama is pleased.


9 posted on 08/01/2010 6:17:30 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (.)
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To: BfloGuy; pepsionice
Of course, somehow I suspect most who favor a national ID card think it would be racist to require immigrants to carry their credential.
10 posted on 08/01/2010 7:29:54 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: trumandogz
The incompetent boobs in the Federal Government have had nine years to close these flaws and they have failed.

Not so much incompetent, as it was never a priority. Unimpeded movement of goods and natural persons is much more important to those in charge of our borders & immigration than national security.

OTH, no expense seems to be spared when it comes to tracking and micro managing US citizens and US businesses.
11 posted on 08/01/2010 7:53:23 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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