Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Poor Stewart Baker. He’s the DHS policy guy who has been pushed forward to argue that signing “MOUs” (memorandae of understanding) with one or two states overcomes the dozen+ states that have passed legislation opposing or rejecting the REAL ID Act.
It’s true that REAL ID has had a good couple weeks. Arizona’s Governor claims to have signed up her state – oh, except for everyone from the ACLU to the John Birch Society saying “Hell NO!”
Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.
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May 27, 2012
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