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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 1:08 am
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TSA adding black lights to screen passengers' ID cards

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

D/FW AIRPORT -- Under a black light, hard-to-reproduce holograms on identification cards, such as the Texas driver's license, become visible.

There on your driver's license, for example, a bunch of little yellow "TEXAS" holograms appear.

Different cards have different identifiers. (The Swiss identification card has a cobalt blue fishnet design. In the photo area is a second green-yellow hologram: "SCHWEIZ, SUISSE, SVIZZERA, SVIZRA, SWITZERLAND.")

The Transportation Security Administration, which has taken over document-ticket screening at U.S. airports, is rolling out small black lights and loupes (magnifying lenses) to 1,300 specially trained screeners who check suspicious IDs in the ticket lines.
And when individuals exercise their right to decline showing ID while traveling domestically?

Officious popinjays.
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