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Mission creep: CAPPS II may and up costing taxpayers a lot of money while only partially...

By Feldman, Joan M.
Publication: Air Transport World
Date: Thursday, May 1 2003

The new US system for evaluating whether or not an airline passenger poses a terrorist threat is in danger of mimicking other post-9/11 antiterrorist efforts in aviation: Appearing to do something while missing the objective of increasing security.

In a post-9/11 panic, Congress enacted numerous laws designed to prevent future attacks, foremost among them the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001. Its aims included strengthening preflight information-gathering on and risk assessment of air passengers. The result is the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening

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