I'm sure the system's still just getting the kinks out

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Sen. Kennedy flagged by no-fly list

I can't help but be surprised that none of the airline employees at National or Logan would recognize the senior senator from Massachusetts and just overide the list. But, anyway, the larger point remains:

"That a clerical error could lend one of the most powerful people in Washington to the list -- it makes one wonder just how many others who are not terrorists are on the list," said Reggie Shuford, senior ACLU counsel. "Someone of Senator Kennedy's stature can simply call a friend to have his name removed but a regular American citizen does not have that ability. He had to call three times himself."

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In a vaguely related vein, it took until the council on Un-American activities picked on someone (an army general?) with the power to make the government take notice before Senator McCarthy lost some of his steam. Maybe now the elected officials will listen to the concerns that there is no appeals process for this list and it's very nebulous as to how people get on it in the first place.

Of course, it is Ted Kennedy, so as long as he's not on it anymore he might not have a problem with it.