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TSA Adds a New Twist to Passenger Screening
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Posted on 03/21/2009 8:32:00 AM PDT by nuconvert

Just when you thought you had the Transportation Security Administration rules all figured out, here comes a new procedure. Starting sometime in the next few months, you'll have to provide your birth date and gender whenever you buy an airplane ticket. The TSA is giving the airlines some time to change their websites and retrain their phone-reservations agents to be able to implement the agency's new Secure Flight program. Expect the changes on domestic flights by this summer.

The change is supposed to help reduce the number of Americans who are misidentified as individuals on the agency's no-fly and "selectee-for-further-inspection" watch lists. Up until now, airlines have done the work of vetting their passenger manifests for suspect names, but under the new program, the TSA assumes the job of monitoring watch lists full-time and implements "a uniform, efficient matching process."

(Excerpt) Read more at travel.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airtravel; bho44; bhotsa; travel; tsa
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To: bgill
Perhaps do a study of it on a small scale first like have passengers bring their official BC to board Air Force One.

ROFL!

No, rules are not for the Massas, the paper searchs are for our good citizens. Gotta get the Peons trained ya know to the new National Socialist ways. I wonder if the New Social Services uniforms will be as spiffy as the Old German SS uniforms?

61 posted on 03/22/2009 7:07:59 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: ponygirl
Made me wonder if the guy just had a foot fetish or something.

No, the TSA carefully screens for Perverts in the applicaton process. You have to produce your drivers licence and proof of birth date. No way a Pervert could get in with that check.

62 posted on 03/22/2009 7:13:16 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: nuconvert
Maybe there’s something missing from the article.

Yeah, common sense.

63 posted on 03/22/2009 7:13:59 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: mysterio
Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?

Sounds like a german Jewish saying to me.

64 posted on 03/22/2009 7:15:23 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: nuconvert

well this is going to upset san franceeeeesco.


65 posted on 03/22/2009 8:09:35 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: American in Israel

You’ll find a lot of examples of it in patriot act, drug war, and other civil liberties threads prior to 1-20-09.


66 posted on 03/22/2009 8:12:44 AM PDT by mysterio
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