studentff
Jul 18, 04, 5:09 pm
Apparently "Jack Baldwin" gets the same treatment as David Nelson. The government thinks flying (or doing so on schedule) is a "privilege" and chooses to deny it to these men with no reasonable recourse to clear their names.
One story is on an 81-year-old WWII submarine veteran. The second is on a frequently-traveling surgeon.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2684385
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2679746
But on his next flight, out of the smaller airport at Lebanon, N.H., "They wouldn't let me fly and wouldn't tell me why."
They sent him to a Transportation Security Administration office near Manchester. TSA is the $5.3 billion agency of the Department of Homeland Security tasked with making air travel safe.
There he was "debriefed" and cleared after Baldwin had them call the staffs of both New Hampshire senators. But he missed his flight and was a no-show for a scheduled speech.
Sometimes he made it through after a supervisor checked on him. Sometimes he was taken into a back room and questioned.
The people responsible from this system should be fired and publicly humiliated, and these men should be compensated approproately from both government funds and the personal funds of those who conceived/implemented this sytem.
If it wanted to, the government could "turn off" this flawed component of CAPPS immediately, yet they have not done so in the nearly three years since 9/11.
One story is on an 81-year-old WWII submarine veteran. The second is on a frequently-traveling surgeon.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2684385
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2679746
But on his next flight, out of the smaller airport at Lebanon, N.H., "They wouldn't let me fly and wouldn't tell me why."
They sent him to a Transportation Security Administration office near Manchester. TSA is the $5.3 billion agency of the Department of Homeland Security tasked with making air travel safe.
There he was "debriefed" and cleared after Baldwin had them call the staffs of both New Hampshire senators. But he missed his flight and was a no-show for a scheduled speech.
Sometimes he made it through after a supervisor checked on him. Sometimes he was taken into a back room and questioned.
The people responsible from this system should be fired and publicly humiliated, and these men should be compensated approproately from both government funds and the personal funds of those who conceived/implemented this sytem.
If it wanted to, the government could "turn off" this flawed component of CAPPS immediately, yet they have not done so in the nearly three years since 9/11.