Source: The Intelligencer
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – If you’re in the market for a car, be prepared to prove you are not a terrorist.
The federal government’s Red Flags Rule mandates that auto dealers, banks, credit unions and other “creditors” and “financial institutions” take additional steps toprevent identity theft and fraud, beginning Jan. 1. Included in the list of so-called creditors is your family doctor.
Among those steps is determining whether a person applying for financing – or even paying cash for a car – appears on any government watch lists of known or suspected terrorists or terrorist organizations.
As a result, consumers hoping to finance a new or used car, a home or even a major appliance will be required to supply personal information – such as their Social Security number and birth date, as well as the answers to five questions designed to confirm a customer is who they say they are – to the business at the time of the sale. Those questions could include anything from previous addresses and area codes to the names of other members of the consumer’s household.
Thomas Garage Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep in St. Clairsville uses a software called Wise Scan ID to simplify the search of public records and the 475-page Office of Foreign Assets Control “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list, commonly referred to as the terror watch list.
Anyone can view the “SDN List” online at www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/.
Sparing the dealership the time it takes to check the list manually, the software generates a report verifying the person in question is still living and has provided accurate personal information – and that they are not listed among suspected terrorists.
WHILE ON THIS SUBJECT:
Obama Administration Removes Taliban From National Terror List
That’s strange… We’ve been fighting the Taliban for 9 years in Afghanistan but the Obama Administration recently removed them from the list of terrorist organizations.
Could Team O really be this confused?
The Daily Caller reported:
A new State Department report designating terrorist organizations notably excludes one group: the Taliban. The U.S. has been fighting a war in Afghanistan for almost a decade aimed at “defeating the Taliban,” Taliban members repeatedly have threatened and killed American citizens and lawmakers have increased pressure on State to add the Taliban to the list.
Earlier this summer, a group of congressional Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urging her to begin the process of categorizing the Taliban as a terrorist group. In June, Sens. Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand of New York and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey proposed legislation that would immediately add the Taliban to the terrorist list.
Yet the State Department’s report (due on April 30 but released last week), did not include the Taliban with groups such as al-Qaida, Hamas and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA). To qualify, an organization must meet only three criteria: It must be foreign, it must engage in terrorist activity and its activity must threaten the security of the U.S. or its citizens.
“It is hard to imagine this agency can see fit to issue a report that doesn’t include the Taliban groups,” Fred Gedrich, a foreign policy analyst and former State Departmentemployee, told The Daily Caller. “They have killed more Americans and conducted more terror attacks on innocent civilians during the past 12 months than any other terror group.“
Maybe Team O still believes these guys are moderate.
Did they already forget that these so-called “moderates” planted a car bomb in New York City back in April?
(Source: GateWayPundit.com)
