{"id":784,"date":"2006-12-20T01:09:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=784"},"modified":"2006-12-20T01:09:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T18:09:38","slug":"homeland-security-chief-defends-real-id-plan-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/homeland-security-chief-defends-real-id-plan-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security chief defends Real ID plan | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Homeland+Security+chief+defends+Real+ID+plan\/2100-1028_3-6143862.html?tag=alert\">Homeland Security chief defends Real ID plan | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON&#8211;U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Thursday defended forthcoming national ID cards as vital for security and consistent with privacy rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chertoff said one of his agency&#8217;s top goals next year is to forge ahead with recommendations for the controversial documents established by a federal law called the Real ID Act in May 2005. By 2008, Americans may be required to present such federally approved cards&#8211;which must be electronically readable&#8211;to travel on an airplane, open a bank account or take advantage of myriad government services such as Social Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security chief defends Real ID plan | CNET News.com For more info click on above link WASHINGTON&#8211;U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Thursday defended forthcoming national ID cards as vital for security and consistent with privacy rights. Chertoff said one of his agency&#8217;s top goals next year is to forge ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rfid","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}