I was hoping the headline was a mistake; but it’s not. This is the environment Bush’s administration has created in our country.
The Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting Bush and his family, “routinely” asks for five “identifiers” of people who will be near the president to run through a criminal data base, Mazur said.
The five factors — name, date-of-birth, Social Security number, gender and race — are used to search the database “in a most timely and effective manner,” he said.
CNN.com
They are requesting the information for the guest list at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday. According to interviews in the article, this is the first time they have asked for a guest’s race.
Just when you think they couldn’t be more offensive.
