GAO: Dead people can still get passports
Federal Computer Week
The State Department should check all U.S. passport applications against a federal database of deaths to ensure that passports are not issued to individuals who use the identities of dead people, the Government Accountability Office recommends in a new report. In a December 2008 investigation, GAO was able to obtain a U.S. passport using counterfeit documents and the Social Security number of a man who had died in 1965.
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