Release the Hounds

At MSN Money, Liz Pulliam Weston has seven ideas for combating identity theft. Most of Ms. Weston's ideas sound pretty sensible, but this argument for one of them caught my eye:

By making it [reporting false information to credit bureaus] a crime, Congress could turn loose any number of hot-shot assistant district attorneys or state attorneys general who wanted to make a name for themselves

She says that as if it's a good thing.