[Darth Sidious]

...officials fear the documents could be used to create false identities or by terrorists.

Probably just the local Democrats, to create voters.

[EggsAckley]

Inside job. In a logical world, all of the employees
would be investigated.

[small voice in the wilderness]

suspicious passports, driver's licenses and other documents.

Perhaps the first indication something may be wrong is a MiddleEastern looking man named Jason. Or the equally supsicious Bahb.

[bandleader]

I think that if this is indeed a terrorist plot,The DemocRats are involved!The "Magic"of swelling the voter-rolls and actually getting DEAD PEOPLE to vote DemocRat(in most cases,more than once),is a talent that they have perfected!!!

[DonQ]

Thirty years ago, when I was working for the Passport Office, a defunct church building was bought out by a cult, which found blank baptismal certificates and the church's seal in the basement. At that time the Passport Office would accept baptismal certificates (purporting to be done shortly after birth) as substitutes for birth certificates. We found out the cult was charging anyone and everyone about $100 per baptismal certificate, made out to any name & date desired. Nobody knows for sure how many dozens or even hundreds of passports, drivers licenses, etc. were issued on the strength of those phony certificates. Thirty years later the price for an official birth certificate form with an official seal imprint must be closer to a thousand dollars each!

[cricket]

Tough times calls for tough measures...; we get serious; they get more serious.

[nothingnew]

Police notified the FBI, Interpol, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Social Security and other federal agencies to watch for suspicious passports, driver's licenses and other documents.

Uhhhmmm....ahhhh...heh heh heh...uhmmm...bwa..ha..ha...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA!!!!

FMCDH!

[vannrox]

Probably more likely to be Democrats rather than Terrorists...

[Dialup Llama]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/20/stolen.certificates/index.html
Apr., 20, 2002

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- About 2,000 blank birth certificates and 300 blank death certificates were stolen earlier this month from the Denver County vital statistics office in Colorado, a police spokesman said Saturday.

Police Det. John White said terrorist interests -- someone using the documents to illegally enter the United States, take on a new identity or otherwise use them "in a fraudulent manner" -- are "absolutely" a concern. M

Denver police have passed along information on the case to local, state and national law enforcement agencies as well as Interpol, a law enforcement agency that works on cases and with legal authorities around the world.

The blank documents were discovered missing April 9, when an office clerk went into a supply room to retrieve some death certificates and noticed an open package, White said.

A subsequent search revealed that a carton of birth certificates was also gone. Authorities did not find any signs of forced entry in the room, he added.

Police have no suspects in the case.

"One thing that we have going for us is that the birth certificates and death certificates are both numbered," White said. "So if any of these birth or death certificates are used, we'll be tipped off because of the numbers that are on them."

An electronic seal was also stolen, White said, but he declined to elaborate on its function or capability.