Annie Jacobsen
2008-07-29 15:52:38
For the record, the airlines can not put individuals on the watch list. Only federal agencies can. Getting angry at the airlines over the DHS mess is silly.
Helen of Troy writes “the [watch list] list is reviewed and scrubbed daily.”
Not only is this wrong, it is hilarious! It took a recent Act of Congress to get Nelson Mandela off the watch list.
“WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela is to be removed from a U.S. terrorism watch list under a bill President Bush signed Tuesday. Mandela and other members of the African National Congress have been on the list because of their fight against South Africa’s apartheid regime, which gave way to majority rule in 1994.”
The Bill is H.R. 5690.
Annie Jacobsen
