Originally Posted by
Tom M.
Paul Leyh, director of the Transportation Security Administration's Secure Flight program, wrote a passive-voice mumbling op-op-ed defending his program:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/...safe.html#more:
By matching all of this data against watch lists, Secure Flight keeps known or suspected terrorists from flying while reducing the hassle for people who had previously been inconvenienced because their name was similar to someone who is actually on a watch list. By supplying this information, more than 99% of passengers will be cleared. Aside from providing this additional reservation information, passengers' experience under Secure Flight will be unchanged.
Which still leaves up to 20,000 passengers per day uncleared by this
tiger-repellent-rock of a program. The "unchanged passengers' experience" is true since there are less than 1-in-5.6 billion passenger-terrorists flying.