DHS taking over checking passenger info against watch lists

[babylonsister]

DHS taking over checking passenger info against watch lists


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it is changing the way aviation security is handled, which will allow it to take over the role of checking passenger information from airlines.

DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff told a news conference at Ronald Reagan Airport that just one year ago a plot was uncovered to blow up airliners leaving Britain for the United States, and the changes planned would further advance authorities' ability to identify potentially dangerous people before they board a plane.

He outlined two new policies.

For international flights, air carriers flying to and from the United States will have to provide manifest information about passengers -- either 30 minutes before departure or as each passenger checks in.

That information would then be checked against watch lists. Previously, the federal government was not receiving that information until planes were en route.

Chertoff said the new regulation will give U.S. Customs and Border Protection more time to check names, and prevent the need to divert planes or send them back to their departure airport due to watch list concerns.

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/09/dhs.security/index.html

[shance]

1. Any historians wanna take a much needed swipe at this one?

Bring it on.

[truebrit71]

2. "Ihre papieren bitte"

...if it quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, chances are it's a duck...

[shance]

10. LOL! Like that TB***

absolutemente********

[onethatcares]

3. why not just

stop flights from Britain?

[napi21]

4. The plan is actually a good one. Get the info BEFORE the plane

takes off! The BIG problem is the DHS stupid watch list. From everything I've heard, it's not reliable, has many names on it that shouldn't be there, and has no mechanism to get them off!

[rodeodance]

5. IT frightens me the DHS has amassed do much power.

[ThomWV]

8. Mark my words, DHS will emerge as Bush's private army, supplemented by Blackwater

It will become America's SS.

[shance]

9. Well its more the corporations private army really. Bush is one of the many spokemen.

n/t

[hootinholler]

6. Is that the bomb threat that was impossible to assemble on the aircraft?

That one? The one there was a big whoop-tee-do over? The one that got water banned from carry-ons?

-Hoot

[babylonsister]

7. Why yes! That very one! Gotta keep that terra ramped up, doncha know. nt

[liberal N proud]

11. It looks like you don't have your papers

The Fuhrer says you must have the proper papers to pass through this gate. Off to the detention camp with you.

[treestar]

12. They appear to be neglecting every other possibility too

Like bombs in the cargo hold. they're so hung up on who is getting on the plane and not what is being done to the plane.