Saturday, September 25, 2004

News Item Footnote

This paragraph was appended to the end of an article in Time about how the former Cat Stevens got on a terrorist watch list.

"Still, the TSA is learning. It recently acknowledged that a Federal Air
Marshall, unable to fly for weeks when his name was mistakenly put on the
"no-fly" list, was in fact not a threat, and removed his name from the list."


Either we are not screening the No Fly list additions anywhere near adequately enough to avoid stupid errors, or we are making suspected terrorists into Federal Air Marshals (y'know, the guys who are supposed to take down the terrorists if they manage to get onto a plane). I definitely feel safer now that I know that the people in charge of assuring transportation safety can't tell the difference between one of their own agents and a security threat.

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