May I suggest that you discuss this issue with any "honest person" you know named Jack Baldwin, David Nelson, John Shaw, Michelle Green, David Fathi, Mohamed Ibrahim, Alexandra Hay, Sarosh Syed, (Sen) Ted Kennedy (D-MA), (Rep) Don Yong (R-AK), or (Rep) John Lewis (D-GA) who gets on an airplane on a regular basis.

HONEST, innocent people with these names and others are stopped at the airport every time they fly. At best they are subjected to extra screening, and at worst they detained by police for several hours while their background is examined. Those that aren't members of Congress have for the most part been given the runaround by the TSA, which initially denied that such a blacklist exists, and still fails to provide most people with an effective means of redress to stop the harassment.

Given TSA's track record with blacklists, allowing them to test or implement their new Secure Flight proposal is likely to only cause more harassment of honest, innocent people. If TSA was truly interested in reducing the number of false positives, they would immediately fix the existing system before proposing/implementing a new system that casts a broader dragnet.

(An effective (though somewhat imperfect for pax) immediate fix could be implemented by having an effective hotline that would be called when someone was flagged that would clear them and result in them being mailed within 14 days a get-out-of-jail free photo ID that the pax could then present at the airport to be instantly cleared for future travel. While it's sad that innocent Americans would need this special ID, it would be a fix that would maintain TSA's (useless anyway IMO) no-fly lists while stopping repeated harassment of innocent people.)