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As someone who has had to deal with the list, good for this woman for fighting it. My name (or rather, the name I share with whomever it is the government was r

As someone who has had to deal with the list, good for this woman for fighting it. My name (or rather, the name I share with whomever it is the government was really after) led me to having five years of not being able to check in to flights after 2001 without going to the counter, giving ID and confirming my birth date, and waiting for the agent to make a phone call (presumably to Homeland Security), which would invariably take a solid 15 minutes of waiting, until I got the all clear and could be checked in, get my tickets, and board my flight. Fortunately, sometime in '06 or '07 I received information on how to remove oneself from the list by filling out a form. I can't recall if I found it independently or if it was given to me by an airline agent, but a few months after turning that in I no longer had to deal with the list again. Perhaps, I should have actually fought against it as well, but in my case it was always just due to the happenstance of having the same name as someone on the list.

mjn 13y ago
Same here, lasted around 2005-08 for me. Completely non-transparent. My name was put on some kind of list without my knowledge (it's a common name), and I was repeatedly delayed every time I tried to fly. Nobody would actually acknowledge anything or give me information about what I could do about it, even though it was pretty obvious what the reason was.
jandrewrogers 13y ago
Same story here. I was often delayed by 45 minutes or more. Basically, I as a native-born American citizen with no criminal record (and ironically, worked for the DoD at one time), could not board a plane without the express permission of the government such that I was delayed while waiting for that permission. Everyone I was traveling with was allowed to go on, I was stuck behind. It was a real source of difficulty for me for a few years. At some point it went out of sight, though I still received special treatment at the border for a while. Consequently, I have a pretty negative view of the "no-fly" lists. Anyone sufficiently dangerous to put on the list is sufficiently dangerous to be arrested. Anything short of that is an obvious lack of due process.

mjn 13y ago

Same here, lasted around 2005-08 for me. Completely non-transparent. My name was put on some kind of list without my knowledge (it's a common name), and I was repeatedly delayed every time I tried to fly. Nobody would actually acknowledge anything or give me information about what I could do about it, even though it was pretty obvious what the reason was.

jandrewrogers 13y ago

Same story here. I was often delayed by 45 minutes or more. Basically, I as a native-born American citizen with no criminal record (and ironically, worked for the DoD at one time), could not board a plane without the express permission of the government such that I was delayed while waiting for that permission. Everyone I was traveling with was allowed to go on, I was stuck behind. It was a real source of difficulty for me for a few years. At some point it went out of sight, though I still received special treatment at the border for a while. Consequently, I have a pretty negative view of the "no-fly" lists. Anyone sufficiently dangerous to put on the list is sufficiently dangerous to be arrested. Anything short of that is an obvious lack of due process.