USG confirm activist "no-fly" list

[Matt]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:23:37AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I wonder - is the USG stupid enough to think that lawyers from the 
> Center for Constitutional Rights are going to blow up airplanes, or 
> is it just a way of harassing dissenters? My guess is the latter, but 
> when you think back on declassified docs from the Red Scare days, you 
> gotta wonder.

In a related topic, profiling and computer screening of passengers is
shown to be WORSE than randomly searching people:

http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/student-papers/spring02-papers/caps.htm

Matt

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