Interrupting Terrorist Travel: Strengthening the Security of International Travel Documents: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism
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United States Congress Senate
Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2007. LC Number: KF26 .J8747 2007b OCLC Number: (OCoLC ...
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Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2007. LC Number: KF26 .J8747 2007b OCLC Number: (OCoLC)166379789 Subject: Passports -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 [ The prepared statement of Mr. Everitt appears as a submission for the record. ] EINSTEIN Chairman F. Thank you very much, Mr. Everitt. Because Senator Kyl has to leave, he would like to ask you a cou-ple of questions. YL Senator K. I just have one main question, and I will try to sub-mit written questions to the rest of you. But with proper training, could a person detect the counterfeiting of a U.S. passport if that passport has been screened into a computer from an off-site com-puter to, let's say, a DHS office here in Washington? VERITT Mr. E. I am sorry, sir. I am not sure I understand your question. YL Senator K. You take the passport in Omaha, Nebraska, and you screen it into a computer, which is connected to DHS. VERITT Mr. E. Yes. YL Senator K. A trained individual looks at that computer screen with the passport on it. Can you detect - to what degree of cer-tainty could you detect a counterfeiting of that U.S. passport? Mr. E. That is a service that actually the FDL provides VERITT through real-time support. What we would do then is we work - it is not a matter of us just looking at that scanned image. We would be on a two-way communication with that person. We are looking at the image. We are asking them questions - Do you see this? Do you see that? - looking for specific security features in the document. That two-way transaction, oftentimes we can help them make a determination, which is a probable cause determination, of whether or not that document is valid or not. Senator K. Excuse me. How trained would the person on the YL transmitting side have to be? Mr. E. Basically trained enough to have the initial sus-VERITT picion that the document was bad. Senator K. Let us assume that this is simply being used to de-YL termine something like eligi...
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