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Originally Posted by pj67coll
The only question of any relevance here is why the hell a named terror suspect was allowed on a plane in the first place. Beyond that everything else is BS.
- Peter.
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From the times article:
One subject of the administration’s security review will be the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, the extensive collection of data on more than 500,000 people into which the warning from Mr. Abdulmutallab’s father’s was entered.
A law enforcement official said it was not unusual that a one-time comment from a relative would not place a person on the far smaller no-fly list, which has only 4,000 names, or the so-called selectee list of 14,000 names of people who are subjected to more thorough searches at checkpoints.
Based on this, he was on a list with about half a million others not on the no-fly list.