Error Puts Kennedy on Airline No-Fly List

Error Puts Kennedy on Airline No-Fly List

WASHINGTON (Aug. 19) - The Senate Judiciary Committee heard this morning
from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch
lists.  Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., says he had a close encounter with the
lists when trying to take the U.S. Airways shuttle out of Washington to
Boston. The ticket agent wouldn't let him on the plane. His name was on the
list in error.

After a flurry of phone calls, Kennedy was able to fly home, but then the
same thing happened coming back to Washington.

Kennedy says it took three calls to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to
get his name stricken from the list. The process took several weeks, in all.

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