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Telly-Tommy

Williams, Patricia J. | August 15, 2005 issue

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Mentions Great Britain's policy of shooting-to-kill terrorism suspects and national security measures in the United States. Idea that caution has turned into panic and "irrational fear"; View that former Wisconsin Governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, who is on the board of Verichip, is marketing a subcutaneous chip that Homeland Security will use instead of a national identity card; Suggestion that the U.S. use bomb-sniffing dogs and bomb-detecting machines; Comment on Thompson's plan to have a radio tracking chip implanted in his arm.

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THOMPSON, Tommy; VERICHIP Corp.; NATIONAL security -- United States; TERRORISM -- Prevention; UNITED States

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