Tens of thousands mistakenly placed on terrorist watch lists

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> "That doesn't mean their names are erased from the watch list. In fact, travelers who go through the paperwork are told, Kennedy said, that "it will not quote 'remove' you from the list because the person we're still looking for is out there."

Instead, their names are put on the separate clearance list, which means they typically can't check in for flights at an unmanned kiosk and must approach the ticket counter to explain their situation and have an airline employee match their name to the clearance list.

A total of about 60 applicants had to be denied, as security officials couldn't determine that the applicants weren't actually the same as those named on the list, Kennedy said."

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Just what in the Hell are these 60 people supposed to do? And then there's the 30K people who get harassed even though they, at their own time/trouble/expense, proved to TSA that they've screwed up.

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