TSA Chief Suspends Traveler Registry Plans ($200 million tool for spying)

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TSA Chief Suspends Traveler Registry Plans

By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -- Security concerns have caused the government to suspend plans for an ambitious program to check every domestic airline passenger's name against government watch lists, Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley said Thursday.

Hawley told the Senate Commerce Committee that he has directed that the program's information technology system "go through a comprehensive audit."

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Nearly four years and $200 million after the program was put into operation, Hawley said last month that the agency hadn't yet determined precisely how the it would work.

Government auditors gave the project failing grades -- twice -- and rebuked its authors for secretly obtaining personal information about airline passengers.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-airline-screening,1,4055643.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

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1. US judge concerned by Bush's surveillance program

See this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2448352&mesg_id=2448374

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2. I'm glad to hear that the program is being suspended, but that won't

stop them.. They'll just give the program a new name and start over..

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3. ACLU: Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2448584&mesg_id=2448584