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Subject: WaPo: Fairy DHS Attacks Victims/Overlooks Isra-Mairkin
Traitors

Date: Oct 23, 2008 9:29 AM

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OMG, what a bunch of fairies. The country is falling
apart because of the wealth-offshoring Banksters (Bermuda),
and the US-UK Corporate Criminals, but the HomeLame fags
are going to further skewer the plain old regular folk.

What paranoid assholes. Who thinks up this stuff?
Surely this action is some sort of a cover-up or a smoke
screen or an attention-diverting maneuver. Why can't
we have real *Americans* thinking up all the ActionPlans
instead of these Israelis (Chertoff and the NeoCons)?

How about this ActionPlan: Follow up on what Sibel
Edmonds has to say, since we're talking Israelis
in the US State Department selling WMD secrets:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/04/6832
"Sibel Edmonds Must Be Heard" -- Philip Geraldi

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece
"For Sale: West's Deadliest Nuclear Secrets"

"Edmonds said: 'He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests
by
passing them highly classified information, not only from the State
Department but
also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political
objectives.'"

Ya think?

You know, I would like to ask the USDOJ what the hell they
think they're doing for their own posterity - and in particular
I mean USDOJ Kevin O'Connor, the Jellyfish. I wonder if even a
one of these lawyers ever remember a time in their youth when they
thought differently about what JFK said about "*DO*ING FOR YOUR
COUNTRY," than they apparently *do* now [Ho, ho, ho..."They (Blank),
man; They (Blank)"].

PLEASE!! I'm already sick enough!! I can't *STAND* this fairy-man
CRAP!!
http://www.actionlyme.org/NO_ARMED_REBELLION.htm

USDOJ and NRA annual gala at the Rove Bohomomian Grove.
Rove wore lavender and puce and brought the flowers.
Gonzales wore chartreuse and pleased the crowd with
his hot-and-spicy corn muffins ;)
George brought his historic mission-accomplished cod-piece
kielbasa, a recipe he picked up in a Kennebunkport pokey...
And Dick wore strappado-ready-wear and delighted the gang
with quail buffalo wing paté on Melba toast....

!!!

Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.relapsingfever.org

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102202646_pf.html

washingtonpost.com

Government to Take Over Airline Passenger Vetting

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 23, 2008; A05

The Department of Homeland Security will take over responsibility for
checking airline
passenger names against government watch lists beginning in January,
and will require
travelers for the first time to provide their full name, birth date
and gender as
a condition for boarding commercial flights, U.S. officials said
Wednesday.

Security officials say the additional personal information -- which
will be given
to airlines to forward to the federal agency in charge -- will
dramatically cut
down on cases of mistaken identity, in which people with names similar
to those
on watch lists are wrongly barred or delayed from flights.

The changes, to be phased in next year, will apply to 2 million daily
passengers
aboard all domestic flights and international flights to, from or over
the United
States. By transferring the screening duty from the airlines to the
federal government,
the Secure Flight program marks the Bush administration's long-delayed
fulfillment
of a top aviation security priority after the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Transportation
Security Administration
(TSA) chief Kip Hawley said yesterday that, except in rare situations,
passengers
who do not provide the additional information will not be given
boarding passes.

"If you don't provide the data, then you are going to put yourself in
a
position where you are probably going to be a selectee," subject at a
minimum
to greater future security scrutiny, Chertoff said in remarks
announcing the program
at Reagan National Airport.

"We know that threats to our aviation system persist," he said. Secure
Flight "will increase security and efficiency, it'll protect
passengers'
privacy, and it will reduce the number of false-positive
misidentifications."

Over the years, watch-list mismatches have frustrated countless
passengers whose
names are similar to those on the agency's no-fly list, or on a second
list
of "selectees" identified for added questioning. The passengers have
included
infants and toddlers; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.); and the wife
of Sen. Ted
Stevens (R-Alaska), Catherine, whose name is similar to Cat Stevens,
the former
name of the watch-listed Britain-based pop singer who converted to
Islam.

Details about why certain passengers are stopped are normally not
shared with travelers,
who often endure long delays and pointed questions. DHS has received
more than 43,500
requests for redress since February 2007 and has completed 24,000 of
them, with
the rest under review or awaiting more documentation, TSA spokesman
Christopher
White said.

But the number of people who actually match the names on the watch
lists is minuscule,
officials acknowledged. On average, DHS screeners discover a person
who is actually
on the no-fly list about once a month, usually overseas, and actual
selectees daily,
Hawley said.

To bolster their case for the new program, U.S. officials for their
first time disclosed
that the no-fly list includes fewer than 2,500 individuals and the
selectee list
fewer than 16,000. Ten percent of those named on the no-fly list and
fewer than
half on the selectee list are U.S. citizens, Chertoff said.

By taking over watch-list vetting from industry, the officials said,
the government
will consistently apply the most up-to-date list information and more
sophisticated
computer programs to catch name variations, and will avoid the risk of
giving sensitive
data to foreign air carriers, Chertoff said.

They estimated that adding identity details will allow "99 percent" of
travelers to avoid delays -- all but 2,000 passengers a day.

Many details of Secure Flight -- which cost $200 million and five
years to develop,
and will cost an estimated $80 million a year to operate -- remain
unclear. Final
regulations will be published by early next month, officials said, and
after that,
airlines can begin requesting information after 60 days and must be
ready to send
data to the federal government after 270 days.

The TSA will phase in domestic airlines first and foreign flights and
over-flights
starting later next year. The officials offered no deadline for
completing the process.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
and subcommittee
head Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) said they are disappointed and
troubled that full
implementation may not occur for several months or years.

Air carriers, particularly foreign airlines, say the changes duplicate
other security
measures. They complain that retooling data systems will cost some of
them millions
of dollars and take several months.

Steve Lott, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association,
which represents
most foreign airlines, said the group's 230 members "are disappointed
that
the TSA did not accept many of our detailed recommendations on how to
improve the
Secure Flight program. . . . We look forward to working with the next
Congress and
Administration to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of these
programs."

Privacy experts welcomed changes to Secure Flight but said problems
remain. Two
earlier versions were scrapped after civil libertarians warned that
the vast new
databases planned would violate Americans' privacy.

U.S. officials said Secure Flight will not tap commercial data,
conduct "data-mining"
or generate risk scores on passengers. Information on most passengers
will be destroyed
after seven days.

But the American Civil Liberties Union said the government still lacks
adequate
redress procedures for people mistakenly matched to secret watch lists
based on
the government's master terrorist database, which identifies about
400,000 individuals
and includes roughly 1 million name records and aliases.

DHS's redress program "has proven to be a black hole that sucks in
documents
and information from those misidentified but never emits a final
resolution to help
affected travelers get off the lists and stay off the lists," said
Caroline
Fredrickson, head of the ACLU Washington legislative office.

"Until we fix the watch lists, reengineering Secure Flight is not
enough,"
said Timothy Sparapani, ACLU senior legislative counsel.