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Title: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT: FULL OF ILLEGAL ALIENS - 6400 Fake Social Security Numbers - How Many Illegal Aliens Have Top Security Clearance?
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CNN - Lou Dobbs
URL Source: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/25/lol.02.html
Published: May 25, 2005
Author: Lou Dobbs / Lisa Sylvester
Post Date: 2006-04-05 15:13:52 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: GetYour, Guns, Ready
Views: 664
Comments: 45
CNN.com PHILLIPS: Now to the security part of Social Security. Government auditors have found thousands of cases of federal workers using bogus or borrowed Social Security numbers, thereby blurring their true identities. And we're not talking bureaucrats here. These are Defense Department workers, civilian and military. CNN's Lisa Sylvester has that story. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The audit by the Social Security Administration's inspector general found more than 6,400 Department of Defense employees between 1997 and 2002 were working with bogus Social Security number. Nearly a third of those were using a deceased person's Social Security number or the Social Security number of a child. DAN STEIN, FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM: If one government agency is hiring someone whose identity is not really known, whose paying on a Social Security number that was never issued or that belonged to someone else, it really represents a potential security threat. SYLVESTER: The Social Security Administration matched W-2 forms against the information in its database. Sixty-four percent of those with invalid Social Security numbers were either active duty or reserve status. Thirty-six percent were civilian DOD employees. According to the report, while the Social Security Administration offers all employers a verification service to screen potential employees, the inspector general could not find evidence that the Air Force or Coast Guard were verifying their employees' names and Social Security numbers. MICHAEL O'HANLON, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: It uncovers a sloppy practice that has no justification, that's hard to really understand why it would be allowed to occur and that must be immediately fixed. SYLVESTER: A Pentagon spokesperson said the DOD inspector general is in the process of reviewing the report and will take appropriate action as required. The Coast Guard went even further, saying, "The Coast Guard investigates every employee, both military and civilian, at hiring, using a much more rigorous standard than a simple Social Security number verification." But questions have also been raised over the lack of screening of private DOD contractor employees. Illegal aliens have been arrested working in restricted areas of the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (on camera) Congressman John Hostettler, chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, sent the Department of Defense a letter, saying, "It is very disturbing to me that the DOD employs persons with unknown or unconfirmed identities who may take up positions with access to dangerous weapons or access to sensitive information." He is now demanding that the Pentagon provide proof that it is screening Social Security numbers. Lisa Sylvester, CNN, Washington. (END VIDEOTAPE)
Lou Dobbs / Lisa Sylvester
May 25, 2005
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#6. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
this is infuriating.
Yes. But can we really be surprised? What is any goob ever good at, except stealing from folks and screwing up?
this is true.
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#7. To: christine (#6)
this is infuriating.
#8. To: lodwick (#7)
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