08-26-2003, 09:55 AM
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| CAPPS Navigates Unfriendly Skies
CAPPS Navigates Unfriendly Skies Quote:
espite the typical August slowdown in Washington, D.C., critics have been heating up efforts to halt or modify a new airline passenger-screening program that would set up a comprehensive internal border-control system to catch potential hijackers and those accused of violent crimes.
In a televised Monday morning press conference hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union, an ideologically diverse coalition of activist groups ranging from the NAACP to the anti-big-government group Americans for Tax Reform jointly criticized the proposed Computerized Airline Passenger Pre-Screening System II, or CAPPS II.
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