Specifically the effort will include evaluating the process by which names are put on the "no fly" and selectee lists.

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Watch-list information is supposed to be incorporated into the "no-fly" and "selectee" lists that get matched automatically against airline reservations.

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We have to ensure that protocols that have been in place and developed since -- for many, many years, don't prevent either information-gathering or information-sharing so that somebody that's on the TIDES list can't go to the screening -- the database screening list and ultimately to selectee and no-fly.

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In this case, the government had information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, but no one added him to either the no-fly list, which would have prevented him from boarding a U.S.-bound plane, or the selectee list, which would have triggered secondary screening that might have caught the explosives hidden under his clothes.

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Because AbdulMutallab didn't make the screening database, his name could not then be sent onto the watch lists maintained by the TSA: the "selectee list, " which law enforcement sources say includes about 14, 000 names, and the "no-fly" list, which those sources say bans some 4, 000 people from boarding any commercial flight destined for the United States.

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