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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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Nigerian who managed to bypass security and fly across the U.S. with a day-old boarding pass, I got to thinking about boarding pass security and what the TSA can do about it if they would just use their imagination.
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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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