'No Fly? No Problem!' Motto Officially Put into Service

At TSAFail, we said it before and we'll say it again. If they let the bad guy onto the plane, they at least know where he is for a few hours.
The part of the full story below, about 'mistaken identity' is a bit of a misnomer. Since the no-fly lists contain only names right now, anyone with a matching name is a potential suspect. The identity is correct- the abject lack of useful information on the no-fly list is the mistaken part. They are a suspect until someone does further screening and somehow determines that the name on the list is not the person standing in front of them. Or the person who was just given a boarding pass. Or the person who was cleared through security. Or the person who is stowing their items in the overhead and settling into their seat. Or the person whose plane is three hours into it's flight out of the country.

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