Check out this excellent piece by Human Events’ Terry Jeffrey on fake ID woes at the Pentagon/DOD. Reading the Inspector General’s report Terry cites was on my miles-long to-do list, but Terry has done a fabulous job highlighting the important security/illegal immigration concerns involved.

Not that the Pentagon seems to care much if illegal aliens using fake IDs join the troops. Sigh.

Meanwhile, the MSM is paying more attention to identity fraud and illegal aliens. CBS News’ 60 Minutes will broadcast a story tonight on the problem:

For $1,300, two 60 Minutes Wednesday staffers, posing as illegal immigrants, purchased real Social Security numbers and birth certificates in the U.S. black market.

Correspondent Bob Simon’s report on this new phenomenon and the hidden camera footage of a black market transaction will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Wednesday on April 20, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Hispanic immigrants are no longer just flocking to America’s southwestern border towns, but are also settling in small towns in the heartland, like Schuyler, Neb., population 5,000. Still, to get a legitimate job with an American company, one needs documents.

60 Minutes Wednesday staffers Ignacio Garcia and Ray Bribiesca found a man known in Schuyler’s Hispanic community for peddling real documents. Posing as illegal immigrants looking for work at the local Cargill meatpacking plant, Garcia and Bribiesca went undercover and found a bar owner in the nearby town of Fremont.

Garcia asked how much he would have to pay for a real Social Security card and a birth certificate. The seller told him the price was $1,300 for both documents. 60 Minutes Wednesday purchased the documents and returned them to their original owner, who is living in Puerto Rico.

CBS News and fake documents–finally getting it right.

Back in Washington, Peter Gadiel of 9/11 Families for a Secure America reveals how he and other family members of 9/11 victims who support the REAL ID act are being snubbed by Senators on both sides of the political aisle. Blood-boiling.