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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (44637)	8/19/2004 7:43:26 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

It looks like someone was confusing a no-fly list with the no-drive list. story.news.yahoo.com US senator Kennedy complains of falling on anti-terror no-fly list WASHINGTON (AFP) - He is among the most recognizable politicians in the United States, but liberal lawmaker Ted Kennedy said that even he has fallen victim to the tightened air security of the terror-conscious, post-9/11 era. At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) Thursday, the Massachusetts Democratic senator described having endured weeks of inconvenience after his name ended up on a watch list barring persons deemed to pose a threat to civil aviation or national security from air travel. Kennedy said that on several occasions last March, he was nearly denied permission to board a US Airways shuttle from Washington to Boston because his name landed on a no-fly list in error. In each instance, he said, an airline supervisor was called and he was eventually allowed to board the flight. But the misunderstanding persisted for weeks -- even after US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge personally intervened. "It happened even after he called to apologize," Kennedy said at the hearing "because my name was on the list at the airports and with the airlines. "He (Ridge) couldn't get my name off the list for a period of weeks." Kennedy directed his remarks to Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson at the hearing, suggesting that if a well-known US senator can have such difficulties in clearing up the such misunderstandings, the average traveller must have a much harder time. A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, Yolanda Clark, confirmed Thursday that the senator had on at least two occasions been subjected to additional pre-flight screening, but added "he was not on the no-fly list." However, she said "his name was similar to an alias of someone who was on the list," leading to the confusion that complicated Kennedy's travel.