Posted on 03/10/2006 11:04:39 AM PST by JZelle
Here's a question no one has asked since the Dubai ports deal erupted as a major election-year terrorism issue: Whatever happened to biometric identification cards for dockworkers and other transportation-industry employees? Congress mandated them over three years ago in the Maritime Transportation Security Act. They were supposed to start rolling out in 2004. It's now 2006, and the system, now barely a pilot project, might not be ready until late 2007, early 2008 or possibly even later.
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