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Originally Posted by Chas H
What are the odds a person on that list has a name the same or similar to yours?
From "The Boston Globe"-
"The federal government has inflated the ``No Fly List" to 200,000 names. But the list has nabbed more members of Congress than it has terrorists. US Senator Edward M. Kennedy and US Representative John Lewis have been inconvenienced by it, and anyone named David Nelson is likely to face a major interrogation each time he flies. Federal officials make it very difficult to correct the list, thus tormenting citizens who are guilty of nothing more than having a name resembling a name suspected sometime by some government official."
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The 'terrorist' batting average
By James Bovard | July 21, 2006
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/07/21/the_terrorist_batting_average/
Wow a three and a half year old New York Times owned Boston Globe op-ed referencing the in convincing Killer Ted using outdated inaccurate facts. Couldn’t find anything at Moveon or the DailyKos?
And now you don’t believe the Dear Leader’s people when they tell you the “No Fly List” contains 4,000 names?
”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.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/us/29terror.html?pagewanted=1