Montana governor Brian Schweitzer declared victory Friday after the
Department of Homeland Security sent his state an extension to the Real ID act,
despite his insistence Montana will never comply with a mandate he describes as
a "boondoggle."

The principal issue is whether the IRS can tax as “income” plaintiffs'
court awards for non-physical compensatory damages, such as “make
whole” awards for emotional distress and loss of reputation.

"They grabbed the door and
jerked it open," says one patient who spoke to KAKE News on a condition
of anonymity. "And then they grabbed my left arm and pulled it up
behind me. They said we can do this the easy way or the hard way."

“There is nothing wrong, unethical, illegal, immoral about any of this. … This is an attack on my fundamental liberty to do our work,” Reynolds told The Associated Press.

According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency
now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet
searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel
and telephone records. The NSA receives this so-called "transactional"
data from other agencies or private companies, and its sophisticated

The disdain and uncooperative nature that this
administration has shown toward Congress, including Republican Members,
is so egregious that I can no longer assume that it is simply
bureaucratic incompetence or isolated mistakes. Rather, I have come to
the sad conclusion that this administration has intentionally

Computer security analyst Babak Pasdar says that a major mobile
telecommunications carrier has a built-in backdoor that provides an
undisclosed third-party with unfettered access to its internal
technical infrastructure, including the ability to eavesdrop on all
calls through its network.

Some mortgage companies tossing customers’ personal data in the trash

The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans'
telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the
fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations

At least two of the states have dug in their heels, determined not to
comply. Democratic Govs. Brian Schweitzer of Montana and John Baldacci
of Maine have vowed to resist implementation of REAL ID, which they
argue violates the privacy rights of US citizens by enabling federal
monitoring of ID use through the uniform security standards required by
the act.