White House Frowns on National ID Card

sonic writes "'One security measure that [Homeland Defense Chief] Clarke didn't put much store in, however, was a proposal by some industry leaders, including Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, to create a national ID card. Clarke said he could not name one official who supports the idea as proposed, though he said the administration does not yet have a formal position on the concept. "Everyone I've talked to doesn't think it's a good idea," Clarke said. "

Comments

Re:Home Land Security Chief

[Keith Russell]

Can I take solace in the fact that my rejected submission on the exact same article got it right? Grrrrr.

Ellison's reply...

[bopo]

Asked about Clarke's disklike of the national ID card plan, Ellison was quoted as saying, "Ok, so no ID cards. How about every citizen is required to purchase an Oracle Database Enterprise license? C'mon, folks, I get to make money off of this somehow, right?"

Homeland defense?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Everyone I talked to doesn't think it's a good idea."

I wonder if defending proper English grammar falls under the jurisdiction of "Homeland Defense".

Probably not.

I say we should create a new war department, the department of "English Grammar Defense". I wish to appoint my high school English teacher, Mrs. Johnson, to head up this new department.

Thank you for your time.

Re:Not out of the woods yet...

[ink]

Does /. have a split personality today?

What probably happened, is that CmdrTaco saw the original story, noted that it was put out by the Bush whitehouse and so he rejected it in order to maintain his anti-Bush-at-all-costs stance. Then Hemos came along and posted it, not understanding that /. is a liberal-biased publication that isn't supposed to say bad things about Sun and Oracle.