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Old Oct 19, 2012, 1:04 pm
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mikeef
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Interesting last couple of sentences on Hicks:

A TSA spokeswoman referred the Sun Herald to the FBI. A spokesman for the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center said he could neither confirm nor deny Hicks is on a no-fly list. He said only about 500 people in the U.S. are on the list, and freedom-of-speech issues are not enough to put a person on the list.
Implication is freedom-of-speech plus something else might do the trick. I wonder if freedom-of-speech issues play any role in the decision to put someone on the list.

Mike
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