TSA chief: Secure Flight program suspended

Paul

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Nov 15, 2005
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Security concerns have caused the government to suspend plans for an ambitious program to check every domestic airline passenger's name against government watch lists.

Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley told the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday that he has directed that the program's information technology system "go through a comprehensive audit."

Hawley did not say whether any security flaws or breaches had been discovered.

"We don't believe any passenger information has been compromised," Amy von Walter, spokeswoman for TSA, told reporters.

The program called Secure Flight has been troubled from the start.

It is strongly opposed by civil libertarians who fear the program would grow into a massive domestic surveillance system in which the government tracks people whenever they travel.

CNN