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Feds Push Flier Background Checks

Yep, I feel SO good about turning over my information to the government. I just know they'll keep it ever so safe. So, what's to keep any of the terrorists from just filling out the same forms we do, getting a clear background check, and winding up on my flight with something nasty that wasn't checked for because they were "trusted?" Isn't it true that most of our 9/11 terrorists had clean backgrounds?

Feds Push Flier Background Checks: "Homeland Security officials quietly lobby Congress to ease oversight of the planned Secure Flight passenger-screening program and allow private databases to help probe travelers' lives. By Ryan Singel. PLUS: Data Dumped in Secure Flight Test"

(Via Wired News.)

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