Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Episode 27: The U.S. passport security gap

Monday, March 23, 2009 in News

A General Accountability Office report details some serious holes in the U.S. State Department’s passport issuance. A GAO investigator was able to obtain four passport with fake breeder document information. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin spoke with Janice Kephart, director of national security policy at the Center for Immigration Studies and member of the 9/11 commission, about the problem and the risk it poses to national security.



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