Where’s ‘Secure Flight?’/By James K. Robinson, a partner in the Washington office of the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/07/08; As a frequent air traveler who is regularly inconvenienced because my common name routinely triggers the government’s terrorist watch list, I read with interest the July 17 op-ed by Leonard Boyle, director of the federal Terrorist Screening Center. I consider his column the long-awaited reply to my May 2, 2005, submission to the Transportation Security Administration in an effort to avoid the inconvenience of watch-list misidentification.
Boyle asked readers how many times they have heard this “myth”: “Thousands of Americans get detained and inconvenienced daily because of watch-list errors!” Without providing evidence, he said, “They don’t.” I know that I do, and it is unclear how Boyle or his agency would know how many others are similarly inconvenienced.
Boyle quoted from the September 2006 Government Accountability Offi…
Boyle asked readers how many times they have heard this “myth”: “Thousands of Americans get detained and inconvenienced daily because of watch-list errors!” Without providing evidence, he said, “They don’t.” I know that I do, and it is unclear how Boyle or his agency would know how many others are similarly inconvenienced.
Boyle quoted from the September 2006 Government Accountability Offi…