Menendez says he reimbursed donor for 2 jaunts

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013 file photo, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez's office says he traveled on a plane owned by a Florida physician who is a friend and political donor, but denied that the senator had engaged with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013 file photo, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez's office says he traveled on a plane owned by a Florida physician who is a friend and political donor, but denied that the senator had engaged with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sen. Robert Menendez's office says he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 for the full cost of two of three trips Menendez took on the donor's plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010.

There was no public disclosure.

"The senator paid for the two trips out of his personal account and no reporting requirements apply," said Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright.

Details of Menendez's trips emerged as his office said unsubstantiated allegations that the senator engaged in sex with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are false.

The FBI searched the West Palm Beach, Fla., office of the donor ? eye doctor Salomon Melgen ? on Tuesday night and early Wednesday, but it was unclear if the raid was related to Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat.

A third trip by Menendez aboard Melgen's plane ? a campaign fundraising journey to the donor's residence in the Dominican Republic ? took place in May 2010. That trip was reported to the Federal Election Commission, said Enright. That trip, for fundraising from the community of Americans in the area, went to the Dominican Republic and to Puerto Rico, said Menendez's office.

Menendez categorized the other two trips as personal. The first was from Aug. 6-9, 2010, a round trip from South Florida to the Dominican Republic. The second personal trip was from Sept. 3-6, 2010, from New Jersey to the Dominican Republic and back.

Menendez could have invoked what is known as a "friendship exemption" regarding the two personal trips, which would have required the senator to report the travel to the Senate Ethics Committee as a gift. Instead, Menendez chose to reimburse the full cost of the two trips.

The Daily Caller, a conservative website, reported shortly before the November election that Menendez traveled on Melgen's private plane to the Dominican Republic to engage in sex with prostitutes.

Menendez's office said the accusations of engaging with prostitutes "are manufactured by a politically motivated right-wing blog and are false."

At FBI headquarters in Washington, spokesman Jason Pack said the bureau "cannot comment on the existence or status of an investigation." Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler also declined to comment.

On Tuesday, Menendez became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, succeeding Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

Records filed in Palm Beach County show an Internal Revenue Service lien against Melgen of more than $11.1 million for unpaid taxes from 2006-09. Prior liens for taxes from 1998 to 2002 were subsequently withdrawn, records show.

Earlier Wednesday, Menendez's office said Melgen has been a friend and political supporter of the senator for many years and said the three trips Menendez took have been "paid for and reported appropriately." Menendez's office later changed the statement's wording to specify that the trips had been "paid for or reported appropriately" to correct the impression that all three trips had been publicly reported.

The Daily Caller began publishing stories about Menendez and Melgen on Nov. 1, when it reported that two women from the Dominican Republic said Menendez paid them for sex earlier in 2012. Prostitution is legal in the Caribbean nation.

Melgen is involved in numerous businesses, all sharing the same address in West Palm Beach, according to records filed with the Department of State in Florida.

Late Tuesday and early Wednesday, FBI agents were seen inside the West Palm Beach building, walking its halls and standing beside shelves full of files.

Melgen is listed as having an ownership interest in DRM Med Assist, which Federal Aviation Administration records show is the owner of a CL-600 Challenger plane. Flight records for the aircraft were not immediately available.

Melgen, a registered Democrat, has made $193,350 in political contributions since 1998, including $14,200 to Menendez, according to Federal Election Commission records. Menendez was chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, which raises money for Democratic Senate candidates, from 2009-11.

Menendez, a lawyer, is a former mayor of Union City, N.J., and also served in the New Jersey state General Assembly and the New Jersey state Senate. He is divorced and has two children.

Melgen, 58, is a native of the Dominican Republic, where he earned his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henr?quez Ure?a in 1978. He has lived in the U.S. since at least 1980, holding an internship, residency and fellowship at hospitals in Connecticut, Missouri and Massachusetts, according to records filed with the Florida Department of Health.

Melgen has been licensed to practice in Florida since 1986 and purchased the West Palm Beach plot of land where he built his main office in 1991. Over the years, Melgen has become regarded as a top ophthalmologist, speaking at conferences and even operating on then-Gov. Lawton Chiles in 1997. The governor later appointed Melgen to a state panel on HMOs.

Calls to Melgen's offices Wednesday were forwarded to an answering service where receptionists told callers to try back Thursday. Calls to Melgen's home in North Palm Beach, which is appraised at $2.1 million, went unanswered.

On the website for his medical practice, Melgen writes: "I am always asked what sets me apart from most other doctors, and I would have to say that I do not consider myself to be a 'cookbook' physician. My patients are my number one priority, and when I am looking to treat a diagnosis I try to look at all the data at hand and extrapolate the best treatment instead of solely adhering to what the current 'standard' of treatment may be."

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Associated Press writers Matt Sedensky in West Palm Beach, Fla., Curt Anderson in Miami and Jack Gillum and Larry Margasak in Washington contributed to this report.

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Washington Urged to Stress Diplomacy in Mali

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WASHINGTON, Jan 30 2013 (IPS) - As Washington broadens its military ?footprint? in the Sahel region of Africa, U.S. analysts are urging the administration of President Barack Obama to devote more effort to diplomacy, especially in Mali.

In particular, they are calling for Washington to press for a swift transfer of power to a democratically elected government in Bamako which can then reach out to rebel Tuareg forces in hopes of driving a wedge between them and Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) and other armed Islamist groups that, until this week, controlled northern Mali for most of the past year.

And they insist that the U.S.-backed French-led offensive that drove AQIM and its allies out of three key towns in northeastern Mali over the past 10 days will not be sufficient to secure the France-sized region indefinitely without some kind of settlement between Bamako and the Tuaregs.

?Clearly there has to be a political solution at some point,? according to David Shinn, an Africa specialist at George Washington University and former ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.

?What the latest military activity is not doing is dealing with the Tuareg problem which has to be addressed seriously,? he told IPS.

Since the French-Malian offensive against the AQIM and its allies was launched Jan. 11, Washington has taken a series of steps both to support the offensive and to broaden its own military involvement in the larger Sahel region.

The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it had concluded a new military accord with the government of Niger to set up a base for Predator drones to carry out surveillance missions over the region?s vast desert areas.

U.S. officials have not ruled out the possibility that the drones could eventually be deployed to carry out strikes against suspected AQIM militants, much as they have been used against the group?s ideological counterparts in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

The base announcement followed Washington?s initially halting agreement to Paris?s requests for intelligence, logistical, and aerial-refuelling support during the French offensive, which reached the storied oasis town of Timbuktu earlier in the week.

?We will review further requests from the French,? Pentagon spokesman George Little said Tuesday. ?We strongly support French operations in Mali; this is a key effort. AQIM and other terrorist groups have threatened to establish a safe haven in Mali, and the French have done absolutely the right thing.?

But those steps may be just the beginning of an expanded U.S. military presence in the region through its six-year-old Africa Command (AFRICOM), which has long been seeking a more-active role on the continent, particularly in conducting training missions and joint exercises with the region?s militaries.

Noting the continuing problems with renegade militias in Libya, AQIM?s advances in Mali, as well as the deadly siege by one of its factions at a gas facility in southern Algeria earlier this month, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Congressional hearing last week, ?We are going to see more and more demands on AFRICOM.?

Despite their public praise for the French campaign in Mali, U.S. officials, as well as independent analysts here, have voiced concern about what happens next.

France, which has so far deployed about 2,500 troops, has said it hopes to quickly reduce its role by transferring control of the towns it has taken to the Malian army and a U.N.-backed African Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) that could number as many as 6,000, mainly West African troops.

But the Malian army, which ousted the democratically elected civilian government last March, is notoriously undisciplined. The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights, among other groups, has reported numerous abuses of human rights committed by Malian soldiers during the offensive, notably against Tuaregs, a lighter-skinned, nomadic people who have long sought independence from Bamako, and some of whose armed factions allied themselves with AQIM last year.

Because of last year?s coup, the U.S. has been barred by law from providing military aid to Mali until a democratically elected government takes power, a factor in Washington?s initially hesitant response to Paris? requests to aid the military campaign.

A transitional regime, which, however, appears subordinate to a military junta headed by a U.S.-trained officer, Amadou Sanogo, has scheduled elections for July.

As for AFISMA, small contingents of which have only just begun arriving in Mali, international donors Tuesday pledged nearly 456 million dollars ? including 96 million dollars from Washington ? to support its operations.

But the original plan called for AFISMA to undergo training and other preparation for several months before deploying to Mali. France?s sudden intervention, which it defended as necessary to prevent a key air base from falling to the rebels, upended the process, calling into question precisely how the West African force will operate.

?The French intervention not only short-circuited the transitional political process in Bamako, but it also short-circuited the (AFISMA?s) preparation,? noted J. Peter Pham, head of African studies at the Atlantic Council here.

?These troops are now being thrown in to an unfamiliar setting without any training. They?ve never operated together; they literally don?t speak the same language.

?And in about eight weeks, the rains will come to Mali, which will render much of the country impassable until September, so they?ll be doing garrison duty in towns surrounded by a vast territory that the enemy knows much better.?

Instead of putting up stiff resistance to the French-led offensive, AQIM and its allies appear to have dispersed into desert hideouts in the region from which analysts fear they will be able to carry out hit-and-run attacks against the Malian and AFISMA forces.

?What?s clear is that they will strike and will continue to strike,? said Nicolas Van de Walle, a Maghreb expert at Cornell University. ?We know from experience that they?re really hard to get rid of in strictly military terms.?

Pham agreed, noting that France?s unilateralism in undertaking its offensive has put Washington, which is determined avoid putting U.S. ?boots on the ground?, in a bind.

?The quandary is that we have a long-standing ally who has now stretched itself out, and we can?t leave them dangling there, as gratifying as that might be. On the other hand, what they?re doing is not sustainable. They?ve now managed to secure two or three towns in northern Mali, but they?re certainly inadequate to securing any of the countryside.?

To both Pham and Van de Welle, the key now lies with applying pressure on Bamako to create a legitimate government that can persuade the Tuaregs to cut their ties to AQIM.

?The government in Bamako is still a military junta by another name,? said Pham, ?and no Tuaregs are going to make any deal with that kind of regime.?

That may also mean pressing France itself to coordinate more closely with Washington on the political front, he added, noting that Paris has just convinced the European Commission to release 92 million Euros to Mali that it had withheld since the coup d?etat.

?That?s 92 million reasons for the regime not to give up power and restore the constitutional order,? he warned.

?The U.S. should be forcing a political settlement in Bamako,? Van de Walle told IPS. ?Before the coup, Mali had a reasonable democracy, so they should be able to move pretty quickly toward elections.

?That?s the start of any political settlement. It?s possible to peel off the Tuaregs from their alliance with AQIM, and that would make a big difference because you could make at least the northeastern part of Mali secure.

?But there has to be a credible deal with Bamako, and the U.S. can?t broker that militarily,? he added.

*Jim Lobe?s blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com.

Source: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/01/washington-urged-to-stress-diplomacy-in-mali/

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Bruce DeSilva, winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award, is the author of "Cliff Walk" and "Rogue Island."

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PHOENIX ? Early Saturday morning, Bo Dallas was just another hardworking WWE NXT competitor, fighting for a spot on WWE?s main roster. By late afternoon, he was preparing himself for the 2013 Royal Rumble Match, where he would be tangling with 29 WWE Superstars for an opportunity to challenge for a World Title on The Grandest Stage of Them All at WrestleMania 29.

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?To be in the history books for anything is amazing,? the dynamo admitted. ?But being the first NXT Superstar to be in the Royal Rumble Match? I don?t know if I?m allowed to say this, but that?s badass!?

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A Catholic hospital in Colorado has argued in court that an unborn child should not be considered a ?person? for purposes of a wrongful-death lawsuit.

In the case of a woman who died of a heart attack while pregnant with twins, a lawyer for St. Thomas More hospital called the court?s attention to ?the long-standing rule in Colorado that the term ?person,? as it is used the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive.? In the wrongful-death case, the plaintiff had argued that while the mother?s life could not have been saved, doctors should have intervened to save the unborn baby twins.

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Don't 'shoehorn' Britain into 'United States of Europe' says PM Cameron

The EU should be open, free, flexible and the UK will be part of it, says the British leader at this week's Davos forum. But?'I don't want a country called Europe,' he adds, as Tory back-benchers push the prime minister to call for a controversial referendum on British participation in the 27-nation union.

By Angela Charlton,?Associated Press / January 24, 2013

In this photo, German chancellor Angela Merkel talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday. Cameron wants nothing to do with a United States of Europe, an idea that's gaining currency as the countries that use the euro struggle to fix their debt crisis.

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But what if it's a choice between a single country called Europe or a splintered continent?

Mr. Cameron is determined to avoid that scary scenario.

A day after he shook up Europe's political landscape by offering British citizens the prospect of a vote on whether to stay in the 27-country European Union, Cameron insisted Thursday he wants Britain to remain a part of the bloc but that more unification would not be the answer.

"To try and shoehorn countries into a centralized political union would be a great mistake, and Britain would not be a part of it," he said at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.

In an interview with The Associated Press afterward, Cameron insisted said he wanted to make Europe "more open, competitive, flexible ? so that we can secure Britain's place within it." "I think it is eminently achievable," he said.

?Many in the EU, particularly among the 17 countries that use the euro, are on a drive for closer political unification, and that's raised particular concerns recently in Britain, which has often viewed the bloc through a business prism.

"If you mean that Europe has to be a political union, a country called Europe, then I disagree," said Cameron.

On Wednesday, Cameron put an end to months of speculation by revealing he intends to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, if he wins the next general election, expected in 2015. But many politicians in Europe think closer political ties are exactly what is needed to maintain continental unity in the face of a debt crisis that's laid bare fundamental flaws in the euro.

?The European Union, which last year won the Nobel Peace Prize, effectively started amid the rubble of World War II ? the motivation to avoid future wars. Some even think Europe's end-game has to be to resemble the United States of America.Countries would be so tied together in their economic and social fabric to make war inconceivable.

?After decades of bit-by-bit integration, the links are now so tight that many European leaders refuse to publicly acknowledge that a British exit is a possibility. Several accuse Cameron of putting the bloc at risk to deal with domestic political problems. His Conservative Party has a hardcore element that is highly skeptical of the EU, while an anti-EU party, the UK Independence Party, is gaining ground in the polls most notably at the expense of Cameron's Conservatives.

?Italian Premier Mario Monti said Britain should set aside ideology and look at its membership in the EU with "pragmatism, which should be a British attitude of mind."

?He argued that Britons, for all their hostility to EU regulations and bureaucracy, benefit so much from the single market that they would be scared to leave ? a ready access to markets and over half a billion people would be a gamble too far.

Most of British business appears to want to stay in the EU but out of the integrationist drive ? but the question is whether that can be achieved.

?"The vast majority of businesses across the UK want to stay in the single market, but on the basis of a revised relationship ... that promotes trade and competitiveness," said John Langworth of the British Chambers of Commerce.

?He was among 56 British business leaders who issued a public letter to the Times of London on Thursday complaining about demands from Brussels and calling for "a more competitive, flexible and prosperous European Union that would bring more jobs and growth for all member states."

Growth is certainly something that Europe is craving. The eurozone as a whole is in recession and figures Friday are expected to show the British economy, the EU's third-largest, halfway back to its third recession in four years.

Open Europe, a London-based think tank, says that 48 percent of the UK's goods and services exports are to the EU. The single market keeps down the cost for Britons of doing business with the EU as well as the price of goods imported from the EU for purchase by ordinary British citizens. Membership gives British citizens the right to live and work anywhere in the EU ? unlike citizens of other countries, who must seek complicated and often hard-to-get residency and work permits.

Mark Gray, a spokesman for the EU, said the bloc affects almost all aspects of the lives of Britons, from the quality of the water they swim in at beaches or in pools, to the quality of the orange juice they have for breakfast and the conditions in the offices where they work.

But many Britons ? like citizens elsewhere in the EU ? see the union as a faceless beast imposing rules and spending on needless things and threatening sovereignty.

?Britain's relations with Europe have been strained since the end of World War II. It did not join the European Steel and Coal Community, the forebear of what would later become the European Union, in 1951. Britain later realized there were benefits accruing from joining up with some of its wartime friends and foes, and joined the evolving European bloc in the 1970s. It has stood against many efforts to forge closer ties, notably the creation of the euro, but was at the forefront of the drive to create a single market.?

?Don Melvin in Brussels and Martin Benedyk in Davos, Switzerland, contributed to this report.

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Sting's daughter to make her off-Broadway debut

FILE - This Sept. 7, 2012 file photo shows actress Mickey Sumner at the "Imogene" premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy ?The Lying Lesson.? The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, that Sumner, daughter of musician Sting and Trudie Styler will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Sept. 7, 2012 file photo shows actress Mickey Sumner at the "Imogene" premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy ?The Lying Lesson.? The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, that Sumner, daughter of musician Sting and Trudie Styler will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Sept. 7, 2012 file photo shows actress Mickey Sumner at the "Imogene" premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy ?The Lying Lesson.? The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, that Sumner, daughter of musician Sting and Trudie Styler will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Sting's daughter Mickey Sumner has signed up to make her off-Broadway debut in Craig Lucas's new comedy "The Lying Lesson."

The Atlantic Theater Company said Tuesday that Sumner, whose credits also include the new Noah Baumbach film "Frances Ha," will star opposite Carol Kane in the comic thriller.

Kane plays a woman who may or may not be legendary screen star Bette Davis and Sumner will portray a woman who tries to discover her true identity.

Previews begin Feb. 20 with an opening set for March 13. Tony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon will replace Anna D. Shapiro as the play's director.

Sumner, whose mother is Trudie Styler, made her New York stage debut in a Culture Project workshop of "The Seagull" and is featured in the Showtime series "The Borgias."

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When you turn on your television to tune in to the Super Bowl this year, you will see two teams led by coaches with the last name of Harbaugh: Jim and John Harbaugh will face off in the first ever brother vs. brother coaching showdown on the biggest scale in all of football.

John, 50, led his Ravens to take down the Patriots 28-13 on Sunday night, avenging their loss in the divisional round of last year?s AFC Championship. He?s seen plenty of success since taking over in 2008, but this will be the biggest moment of his career.

Jim, 49, will see if he can best big brother when Feb. 3 rolls around. The 49ers defeated the Falcons 28-24 on the road after coming back from a 17-0 deficit. His playing career was far more storied than his brother?s, however, you have to believe he?ll recognize the coming matchup as the most significant point of his football days as well.

The Ravens beat the 49ers 16-6 last season. That game marked the first time in NFL history that two brothers faced off as coaches. Stay tuned for the second edition of that historic meeting.

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Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To ...

The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevier is in advanced talks to buy?Mendeley, a London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics to share research and collaborate with each other via a social network. TechCrunch understands from sources close to the companies that the deal is underway and should close this quarter, possibly by the end of February ? all things being equal ? and will be in the region of $100 million. The news comes at a pretty busy time for Mendeley: it has also closed a recent round of funding ? value undisclosed but thought to be under $10 million ? with investors including?Access Industries,?Passion Capital, Tom Glocer (Ex-CEO Thomson Reuters), and UK-based Andurance Ventures.

Prior to today, the company had only publicly disclosed a raise of?$2 million from Passion?s Stefan Glaenzer, Alex Zubillaga and Ambient Sound Investments.

Elsevier was contacted for comment and a spokesperson had this to say:

?Elsevier often looks at acquiring companies that could improve our customer offering and add value.? Some we end up acquiring, most we do not. In all cases, as I?m sure you understand it?s never good to address speculative questions, regardless if they?re on target or not, and we?ll take the same approach here.?

Mendeley, meanwhile, did not confirm nor deny the news: ?We don?t comment on rumors,? Mendeley?s CEO and co-founder Victor Henning told TechCrunch.

TechCrunch also understands that there had been others approaching Mendeley, including Thompson Reuters and Nature Publishing, a division of Macmillan, owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group ? ?effectively, the other big players in the world that Mendeley is disrupting,? said TC?s source.

Since being founded in 2008, Mendeley has gone from strength to strength on its guiding principle of open source and free access to research data ? a timely message given recent, tragic events.

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Mendeley was originally pitched?to investors as a kind of ?Last.fm for research? ? an approach that would have appealed to Glaenzer, an early backer of the music service ? for how it would not only serve as a database of research, but also use algorithms to search and extract data relevant for different users.

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BlackRock Q4 profit jumped 24 percent as ETF deposits give assets a boost, with Larry Fink, BlackRock chairman & CEO.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told told CNBC's "Closing Bell" Thursday that company's fourth-quarter earnings were helped by investors shifting money into exchange-traded funds.

"Investors are not looking at products that are invested like individual stocks," he said. "People prefer the liquidity you get in an ETF versus actively managed funds."

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Florida, the REAL EVILS of REAL ID are on their way?.

Florida is compliant with all REAL ID benchmarks to date. This was inflicted upon us by the Republican led legislature in 2008. Introduced by then Senator Carey Baker, it cleared passage nearly unanimously including in the House, led then by Speaker Marco Rubio. Included among those who voted for this compliance with federal unlawfulness were Dennis Ross, Sandy Adams, Ted Deutch and Daniel Webster. All of these went on to DC where they voted for the PatriotAct extensions, indefinite detention under NDAA and other violations of the Bill of Rights. Current Florida Senate President Don Gaetz also voted yes in the Senate and current Speaker Will Weatherford voted yes in the House.-FLTAC

Written by Mark Lerner

The Real ID Act is a symptom, not the disease!!! It is growing like a weed

How much can we do in the defense of a free and decent society and remain a free and decent society that is worth defending? ? John le Carr?

I know time is precious to each of us. With that said we expect and want our elected leaders to take the time to read legislation before voting on it. This raises an interesting question; are we as citizens willing to take the time to become informed about arguably one of the most serious threats to our freedom since the founding of our country or do we just want sound bites? Are you willing to spend the time it would take you to cook a steak for a Lifetime of Freedom?

?Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.?
?Thomas Paine

What is the Real ID status of my state?

One of the most often questions I am asked is what is the Real ID status of the state the person lives in who is asking me the question. The following link is to a web-site provided by an organization that fully embraces the Real ID Act 2005. Once on the webpage the link provides, you will see a chart that you can click on to find the status of your state http://www.cis.org/real-id-implementation-report .

Review this chart and decide for yourself if Real ID is dead. Underestimating your enemy is one thing but declaring your enemy dead is another. I have read the headlines ?Real ID is Dead?, ?We have Won?, ?Half the States Reject Real ID? and on and on. Few listened and even fewer understood when the Constitutional Alliance, an organization I co-founded, warned all citizens to disregard the headlines and stay focused. Real ID is not dead. In fact it is arguably thriving.

This document will provide corroborated information that will allow you to make informed decisions and provides action recommendations

Real ID is a symptom, not the disease! It is one example of what our federal governments? true goal is; to know everything about everybody.

You may think I am overstating what the goal of the federal government is. If you believe that to be the case I provide the following link to a video of a conference held by the Aspen Institutehttp://www.aspeninstitute.org/video/asf-10-luncheon-address-fran-townsend-former-assistant-president-homeland-security-counterterr
The video is one hour long but allow me to summarize. People need to ?Get over it? when they their personal information is asked for and collected for one reason and then used for other purposes. ?Privacy is not important to young people?. I am not sure you would want to watch the video because your beliefs about how our government protects our Constitutional rights would be changed forever. The people that attended the conference are the policy makers of past years, now and will be in the future.
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Biometrics

Biometrics play a large role in our government?s goal of knowing everything about everyone. Biometric capture or collection is required as the first benchmark that states have to achieve under the Real ID Act 2005.
Biometric can defined as measurements of the body. There is both behavioral and physiological biometrics. Fingerprints, iris scans, facial recognition, DNA are examples of physiological biometrics. An example of a behavioral biometric would be a person?s gait; they way they walk.
This paper will focus on Facial Recognition Technology. Facial recognition does not require the consent or knowledge of individuals when being used. Facial recognition works by measuring the distance between key facial characteristics of a person?s face.

What is the Real ID Act 2005?

Since we all vary in our level of understanding of the Real ID Act, I am going to start with the basics and work my way to where we are at today
The Real ID Act 2005 is incorporated into Public Law 109-13 (109th Congress)http://epic.org/privacy/id_cards/real_id_act.pdf
Real ID establishes minimum federal guidelines for the issuance of state driver?s licenses and state issued identification cards for those that do not drive. After 9/11, the 9/11 Commission made recommendations regarding the issuance of state driver?s licenses.
I am not going into great detail of what tactics were used to ensure the Real ID Act 2005 was passed and signed into law by President Bush on May 11, 2005. Suffice it to say there was no debate in the U.S. Senate about the Real ID Act 2005. Real ID was packaged with two other pieces of legislation that were considered ?must pass? pieces of legislation; one was military spending authorization legislation and the other was Tsunami relief legislation. This ?package? of legislation passed in the U.S. Senate 100-0.
Senator Patrick Leahy used the word ?bullying? to describe the manner in which DHS (Department of Homeland Security) was coercing states into complying with Real ID

http://cqresearcherblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/in-news-senate-panel-criticizes.html

READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT:http://constitutionalalliance.org/work/filemgmt_data/files/Real%20ID%20is%20a%20Symptom.pdf

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