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Originally Posted by Chas H
We're discussing the list with 500,000 names. 3 years ago there were 200,000 names on it. That's a damn big door you're standing behind.
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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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Maybe you shouldn't have conflated the TIDE list (550,000 names) of today that was the subject of discussion; with the no fly list at the time of the article(June 2006) you quote, then 200,000 names and today 4,000 names!