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DHS: Secure Flight Budget Holdups Could Keep Air Travelers Playing Name Game

Ben Bain writes on FCW.com:

What’s in a name? For some travelers flying to, from and around the United States since the 2001 terrorist attacks, it’s everything.

And fliers whose names resemble or match those on the government’s no-fly list, which officials use to ground air passengers, won’t catch a break at the check-in counter as long as the Bush administration’s Secure Flight initiative goes unfunded, the Homeland Security Department’s screening chief said today.

posted by Fergie @ 11/08/2007 06:24:00 PM