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Old Jul 15, 2012 | 6:51 pm
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Originally Posted by FatherAbraham
"They're asking questions that people have a right not to answer," says Mike German, senior policy counsel at the ACLU. "It's nobody's business — and certainly not the government's business — where you're traveling and why."
I am pleased that the ACLU has validated my legal opinion as to the legality of the BDO process.

So far, only 48 travelers out of about 132,000 who have been questioned here at Logan have refused to answer the questions, and instead their carry-on bags were physically searched.
I'm sure that's a figure provided by TSA. I'd wager it has no more basis in fact than TSA's insistence that back-scatter x-ray scanners are "perfectly safe."
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