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"WASHINGTON (AP) - Information on passengers who took a commercial
flight within the United States in June will be turned over to the
government so it can test a new system for identifying potential
terrorists.

People will have a chance to tell the government what they think about
the plan during a 30-day comment period, federal officials said on
Tuesday."

"...Airlines currently check passenger names against watch lists.
Because intelligence information is classified, however, airlines don't
have access to names of all known or suspected terrorists. The Sept. 11
commission, in its July report, urged the government to take over the
task of checking the lists."

[So, how come the TSA doesn't just declassify the information and/or
give the airlines clearance, and turn their information over, so the
airlines can do their job? Oddly, I trust the airlines to do this
correctly better than I trust the TSA.]

<sigh>

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