9/11 Panel Wants to Expand 'No-Fly' List

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- The government should check travelers' names against terrorist watch lists before they board passenger trains or cruise ships, the Sept. 11 commission recommended Wednesday.

Airlines now check their passengers' names against such a list, a responsibility that the Transportation Security Administration plans to assume sometime next year.

Privacy advocates say the government is too secretive about how it puts people on the list and that those who are mistakenly identified as terrorists don't have an effective way of getting off it.

The proposal is one of 94 released Wednesday that expand upon a handful of transportation security improvements the Sept. 11 commission recommended to Congress in July.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-transportation-security,0,2010417.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Swamp Rat]

1. We will all be on this list sooner or later.

I guess I'll have to ride my bicycle in order to visit my girlfriend in Brasil.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. From Ted Kennedy to Robert Kennedy Jr? n/t

[Must_B_Free]

3. here's the key

"Airlines now check their passengers' names against such a list, a responsibility that the Transportation Security Administration plans to assume sometime next year."

Each airline has its own list; each has different names on it. From what I hear, the process is an unorganized mess. The move it to get all on one list and the list would be consolidated by TSA.

Getting off the list would be easier if it were consolidated to a single point of management. With each airline having its own list, it must confuse the process.

I don't know who puts people on what list thought, currently, presumably the federal authorities would have to update each airline separately. The move is to allow TSA to do a better job.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Enter the Orwellian Fascist society

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