The Homeland Security Department says it gets about 2,000 requests a month from people who want to have their names cleared. That number is so high that the department has been unable to meet its goal of resolving cases in 30 days, says Christopher White, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, which handles the appeals. He says the TSA takes about 44 days to process a complaint.
I thought you could. And while you're at it, answer me this. If it takes 44 days to get a name off, how did they get 755,00 on? Just dump them in carload lots?
Apparently so. Take, for example John Anderson. (And how many John Andersons do you think there are? I know a couple of them myself. 755,00 names does not 755,000 people make.) Like the John Anderson whose picture appears in the USAToday story cited here. The 6-year old John Anderson from Minneapolis (Bunky, there must be a few hundred John Andersons in Minneapolis alone). When John travels with his parents by air the family must check in at the airport counter so some official or other can verify who he is.
The family has tried to get the kid off the list but so far, no luck. And when you stop to think of it, how can they take a name like John Anderson off? How are they going to keep all the John Andersons sorted out? There ain't no way.
At least they haven't waterboarded him yet.
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