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So after numerous problems and complaints since the list was expanded in 2001, the Bush administration is finally getting around to looking at the no-fly list and determining if maybe it’s a little too broad. They admit that tightened screenings have inconvenienced travellers, and considering that they’d already revealed the biggest threats weren’t even on the list, one could wonder why it took so long. Of course, if more senators had wives with similar names to no-fly folksingers maybe this would have gotten done sooner.

At a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, Hawley ran into inquiries from lawmakers with family members or friends who had encountered problems at airport checkpoints.

Among them was Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who complained that his wife, Catherine, was being identified as “Cat” Stevens and frequently stopped due to confusion with the former name of the folk singer now known as Yusuf Islam, whose name is on the list. In 2004 he was denied entry into the U.S., but officials declined to explain why.

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