Fake papers can get you an American passport – even after 9/11
Russia Today
15 Marzo 2009
A report issued by the Congressional Government Accounting Office reveals shocking details of how easily one can get a genuine American passport by applying using falsified documents at a passport office.
A draft of this report was obtained by The Associated Press.
A government investigator, in order to check the security in post-9/11 America, used documents, among others, from a child and a man who died over 40 years ago to obtain a passport – and succeeded in all his attempts.
After the 2001 terrorist attacks, security expenses in the US skyrocketed. Passport security was among many that were a particular focus since the suicide terrorists that attacked the WTC and Pentagon used fraudulent driver’s licenses to board the planes.
Now it looks like, to put it mildly, the measures taken were insufficient and over the past seven years U.S. officials have learned nothing about passport security and fraudulent …
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