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Ex-U.S. spy recalls years on no-fly list
Posted by Randall Mikkelsen
ORLANDO, Fla – Decades of passing lie detector tests and the most stringent background checks count little when it comes to the U.S. no-fly terrorist watch list, the Pentagon’s former spy chief recalled on Monday.
Retired Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, once the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a top Homeland Security Department intelligence official, said after he entered the private sector in 2005 he was denied boarding on a flight because his name was on the no-fly list. It has taken him ever since to clear up the confusion.
“It happened three years ago, I just got off the list – Yay!,” Hughes said at a conference of intelligence analysts.
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The incidence of Retired Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes,Ten Kennedy, Rep. John Lewis, and others points out the incompetence of the people who manage this list. Where were the bureaucrats when terrorist arrived on the shores of the United States, took flying lessons with no questions asked. Where were the officials when the Twin Towers toppled, the Pentagon hit, and an airlines went down in Pennsylvania. Where was the competence when they mailed a Green Card to ATTA? LOL