http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/153855

Ad attacks Napolitano on licenses
By Daniel Scarpinato
arizona daily star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.01.2006

Today: We profile a piece from Republican Len Munsil criticizing Gov. Janet Napolitano.
The medium: A four-page mailer.
The race: Arizona governor.
The message: The mailer has a large grainy photo of the World Trade Center being hit by a plane on Sept. 11, 2001.

Under the picture are the words: "The terrorists who flew this plane carried U.S. drivers' licenses."
Inside, it says: "Governor Napolitano does not care."
"Napolitano wants illegal aliens to have the same drivers' license you carry."
It goes on to state: "Never mind that Sept. 11 terrorist Hani Hanjour learned to fly right here in Arizona using an Arizona driver's license as identification."
"... If Napolitano gets her way, terrorists can forget having to use that pesky foreign passport — that would get you looked at funny and searched."
A driver's license "provides a presumption of citizenship and legality," it says.
On the last page of the flyer, it states: "Vote NO on Gov. Napolitano. Let her know you're tired of her pretending to be something she's not."
The intent: To portray Napolitano as soft on illegal immigration, which, in turn, supposedly makes the country more vulnerable to terrorism.
Fact check: Napolitano said in 2003 she would sign a bill allowing illegal immigrants to have driver's licenses, if it reached her desk. It never did.
In August, a Napolitano spokeswoman declined to say if that is still the governor's position.
Last summer, at a meeting of the National Governors Association, which Napolitano now chairs, several governors objected in a closed-door meeting with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to new federal driver's-license requirements because of the cost they said it would create for the states.
Sept. 11 hijacker Hani Hanjour attended the University of Arizona in 1991 and also lived in Mesa as late as 2001 and took aviation classes in Scottsdale. He is believed to have been the pilot who slammed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
Arizona Daily Star reports immediately following the terrorist attack indicated Hanjour had an Arizona identification card, but make no reference to his having a driver's license. The two appear similar. The stories say some terrorists did have American driver's licen-ses from other states.
But there were other lapses in security that led to the 9/11 attacks, not just fake driver's licenses, such as a lack of communication between intelligence agencies and less stringent airport security procedures than are now used.
A report by the bipartisan federal commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks, said: "The federal government should set standards for the issuance of birth certificates and sources of identification, such as driver's licenses."
Sources: 9/11 Commission Report, 9/11 Families for a Secure America, Arizona Daily Star archives, Capital Media Services, Coalition for a Secure Driver's License, Stateline.org