"In July, House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), introduced legislation to ban TIPS (Sec. 880). The bill also prevented
the Justice Department from using the Homeland Security Act as a launch pad to create a National ID system (Sec. 1514), and
to create a Privacy Officer (Sec. 222).

"Mr. Armey was adamant about keeping those provisions in the bill," said Richard Diamond, a spokesman for Armey, who
recently retired after 18 years in Congress. "He felt the programs were not consistent with free society."


Interesting that it was a Republican who introduced the legislation. Aren't they the ones that are supposed to be all for this sort of thing?

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