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Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004 8:57 a.m. EST
Kallstrom: Border Security Key to Intel Reform
Former New York state security czar James Kallstrom said Wednesday that while the intelligence reform bill backed by the 9/11 Commission contains many good ideas, it won't do much good without a crackdown on terrorist loopholes like driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
"As long as people can pour across the borders ... largely unobstructed, the job of the terrorist task forces in the United States is going to be a moving target," said Kallstrom, who headed up the FBI's New York office before he was recruited as the state's top counterterrorism official in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
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In comments to WABC Radio's John Gambling, Kallstrom voiced support for provisions of the intelligence reform bill that are being pushed by House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner - measures dropped from the legislation because they were deemed too "controversial."
"The fact is that in some of the states, a 10-year-old in the backseat of a car can make a driver's license," the one-time top security official told WABC. "Or you can get a real driver's license with phony documents quite easily."
"We need to have some national standards for securing these documents that become the identity of people," Kallstrom warned.
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