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Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly
NY Slimes ^ | 10-21-2013

Posted on 10/22/2013 7:38:06 AM PDT by markomalley

The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.

While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, the new measures give the government greater authority to use travelers’ data for domestic airport screenings. Previously that level of scrutiny applied only to individuals entering the United States.

The prescreening, some of which is already taking place, is described in documents the T.S.A. released to comply with government regulations about the collection and use of individuals’ data, but the details of the program have not been publicly announced.

It is unclear precisely what information the agency is relying upon to make these risk assessments, given the extensive range of records it can access, including tax identification number, past travel itineraries, property records, physical characteristics, and law enforcement or intelligence information.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: backgroundcheck; obamagraphic; securitycheck; tsa
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I guess with Project VIPR, they will pre screen you long before you step on the sidewalk.
1 posted on 10/22/2013 7:38:06 AM PDT by markomalley
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Heck, why not start the screening at birth? Just in case you ever venture out into public.


2 posted on 10/22/2013 7:41:20 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: markomalley

Your TV scans from the flat screens bought after 2011 can start at home.


3 posted on 10/22/2013 7:42:59 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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Insidious government collection of individual information is what Russia's KGB is noted for.

Get ready, America ... for the Gulag prison phase.

4 posted on 10/22/2013 7:43:02 AM PDT by OldNavyVet ("Learn from science that you must doubt the experts" ... Richard Feynman)
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To: OldNavyVet

Muslims, of course, will be exempt.


5 posted on 10/22/2013 7:43:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: markomalley

Amazing, this works but healthcare.gov doesn’t.


6 posted on 10/22/2013 7:44:14 AM PDT by informavoracious (Of course I want people to have healthcare, I just didn't know I was the one who would be paying...)
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To: markomalley

All from a Prez with SEVEN social security numbers.


7 posted on 10/22/2013 7:45:12 AM PDT by gaijin
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TSA agent sez...

“Ah, Sir...in reviewing your records, we see you visited your Obamacare-assigned physician yesterday complaining of a fever and a rash, and the test results have not come back yet. You won’t be able to fly until you’re cleared for the plague and all those other nasty bio threats that terrorists like to use. Have a nice day.”


8 posted on 10/22/2013 7:45:32 AM PDT by moovova
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To: markomalley

Guess this is why everyone under 30 seems to feel that Ed Snowden is a Saint.


9 posted on 10/22/2013 7:51:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Why limit the “screening” to people who are flying? It’d be a lot easier to just rape everybody.


10 posted on 10/22/2013 7:54:14 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: markomalley

I’m almost surprized this is coming from the NYT. Are they complaining or trumpeting?


11 posted on 10/22/2013 7:57:03 AM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: markomalley; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

12 posted on 10/22/2013 7:59:52 AM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: markomalley

No signee for Obamacare, no flyee ...


13 posted on 10/22/2013 8:01:29 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: markomalley
New terrorist profile :


14 posted on 10/22/2013 8:02:42 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I am 71 , I don’t see Snowden as a Saint but I do see him as a whistleblower who is being punished politically for outing invasions of Americans privacy.


15 posted on 10/22/2013 8:24:25 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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Oh I know I’m on their list.....sigh


16 posted on 10/22/2013 8:25:13 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (If my body dies, then let it die, but let my country live.)
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Support FReedom



17 posted on 10/22/2013 8:43:36 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. - Aristotle)
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Funny how they can screen every American citizen, yet they refuse to screen one particular Indonesian!


18 posted on 10/22/2013 9:37:29 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: null and void; Old Sarge; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; La Lydia; ...

The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.

While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, - the new measures give the government greater authority to use travelers’ data for domestic airport screenings.

19 posted on 10/22/2013 10:09:30 AM PDT by LucyT
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Next they’ll have cameras stationed every three feet along your sewer pipes and half a dozen men with lab coats and clipboards at the end of the driveway monitoring your output to determine your seat number.


20 posted on 10/22/2013 10:13:05 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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