Air Marshals' Names Tagged on "No Fly" List

This one makes no sense to me. According to the Washington Times, some federal air marshals have been denied boarding onto flights on which they were assigned to protect because their names matched those on the terrorist no-fly list! The Transportation Security Administration is not denying this and has said they are taking steps toward fixing this problem. The air marshals said that this problem has persisted for years.

One air marshal said he has been harassed for the last six years because his name matched a suspected terrorists name. This is ridiculous...the people who are hired by our government to protect the citizens are not being allowed to fly on their flights because their names happen to be the same as a suspected terrorist. Sweet job TSA.

In traditional reactionary form, a new directive has been issued that “mitigates any misidentification concerns by empowering airlines to quickly clear an air marshal’s status after positively identifying their law enforcement status.” Sounds like fancy mumbo jumbo that should have been understood and implemented back when the "no-fly" list was created.

The worst thing about it is that the Federal Air Marshal program is administered by the TSA.

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