[VOA]

Well, to be fair, he was flagged as being on the “no fly list”
and he wasn’t flying.

Maybe I jumped to conclusions; I thought the flagging was over
a report of his TB status.

I guess terrorists just have to do a lot more driving and
a lot less flying!

[Jonah Johansen]

Cooksey works in the CDC’s mycobacteriology laboratory branch.
Am I the only one the least bit curious about the coincidence?

No more of a coincidence than the bloody glove behind OJ’s house.

[livius]

Actually, he was on a border or entry-point watch list as well. I guess they weren’t exactly on their toes on the Canadian border (where, IIRC, there’ve been slip-ups before).

[Ramius]

As I understand it, he was put on the “no fly” list because of his TB. Likely done, I suppose, when the CDC tracked him to Rome and told him not to fly.

That’s when he flew against orders (the no-fly list is just for the U.S. and I don’t suppose that foreign airlines use it.) to Prague and then to Montreal. Then he drove into the U.S.

At that point, he’s a U.S. citizen coming back into the U.S. and there’s nothing for the border agents to detain him for. He wasn’t wanted or subject to arrest, at least not yet.