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bft.wtf Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · Apr 17
“In a…meeting with Vice President Cheney, Ellison was quick…to offer technical support for a national identity program”

He “lobbied for a total government information system of digital ID cards linked to a central database, with thumbprint and iris scans. Optional for citizens, mandatory otherwise”
In a November 2001 meeting with Vice Presi- dent Cheney, Ellison was quick, perhaps a touch too quick, to offer technical support for a national identity program, the very project Americans re- jected in the mainframe days. Ellison lobbied for a total government information system of digi- tal ID cards linked to a central database, with thumbprint and iris scans. Optional for citizens, mandatory otherwise. He met with Ashcroft and apparently convinced him, because the attorney general nearly pushed it through, thanks to bipartisan support from Ellison's senator in California, Dianne Feinstein. Privacy safeguards were ab-
September 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM