Charles Clarke has embraced a national ID card for Britain. It will be a miserable failure. I’m constantly surprised and disappointed by the otherwise incredibly sharp people who’ve fallen for this awful idea. My objections aren’t those of the civil liberties left, I promise you. Any attempt to build a “foolproof” national ID card for the US will backfire. We’re better off with data-mining technologies, like the unfortunately named, and now dead, “Total Information Awareness.”
— Reihan Salam
The Dish 