State Of WA In The News
WA erred in granting hundreds of commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens
By Jake Goldstein – Street Washington State Standard
Dec 9, 2025
“Washington state mistakenly issued nearly 700 licenses to drive trucks and buses to noncitizens who don’t qualify over the past seven years.”
“By handing out standard CDLs to drivers who were never eligible, Washington sent unsafe foreign drivers onto highways across America and put countless families in danger.”
We The Governed
Drove from WA to D.C.
The post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) appears to have played no role in preventing crimes committed by the D.C. gunman.
Post-911 Surveillance State Falls Short
At The Federal Level – REAL ID
Newspeople play along by not asking questions.
At the airport- REAL ID will solve what sorts of problems? What will improve?
Would any newsperson ever ask:
What keeps terrorists of the GWOT from creating a disruption at the back end of the airport security/ID screening line?
Some version of REAL ID has been required at border crossings and ports of entry since 2009.
More cartel drug overdose deaths now, or before REAL ID?
Any questions from newspeople?
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