UPI
The Department of Homeland Security yesterday said that it had begun running the names of 400,000 port workers against U.S. terrorist watch lists, the first step in creating a federal credential for transportation employees.
Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Michael P. Jackson told business leaders in Washington the national biometric identity card, Transportation Worker Identity Credential, will eventually be issued to all 725,000 people with unescorted access to U.S. port facilities.
Posted by Richard at April 26, 2006