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	<description>Challenging ID Demands</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Is the problem with the TSA the leader? Or the concept?</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/05/10/is-the-problem-with-the-tsa-the-leader-or-the-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Paul Broun, MD, a Georgia Republican member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has called for the resignation of the Administrator of  the TSA, John Pistole.
We agree with Rep. Broun that &#8220;The time has come for serious action to be taken&#8221; with respect to the TSA, that &#8220;drastic change&#8221; is required, and that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US retaliates against tortured &#8220;no-fly&#8221; exile with trumped-up criminal charges</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/05/08/us-retaliates-against-tortured-no-fly-exile-with-trumped-up-criminal-charges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/05/08/us-retaliates-against-tortured-no-fly-exile-with-trumped-up-criminal-charges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 02:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For two years, FBI agents tried to recruit Yonas Fikre &#8212; a US citizen who came to the US with his family as refugees when he was 12 years old &#8212; to infiltrate and inform on members of the congregation of a mosque he attended in Portland, Oregon, as part of an FBI entrapment &#8220;sting&#8221;.
When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US citizen exiled to torture by &#8220;no-fly&#8221; list seeks asylum in Sweden</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/04/27/us-citizen-exiled-to-torture-by-no-fly-list-seeks-asylum-in-sweden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/04/27/us-citizen-exiled-to-torture-by-no-fly-list-seeks-asylum-in-sweden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A US citizen who was imprisoned and tortured for three months by the US government&#8217;s &#8220;allies&#8221; in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and who can&#8217;t come home even after being released from the UAE because the US government has put him on its &#8220;no-fly&#8221; list and forbidden any airline from transporting him to the US, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No-fly case goes forward against Feds, while SFO pays through the nose for false arrest of traveler</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/04/26/no-fly-case-goes-forward-against-feds-while-sfo-pays-through-the-nose-for-false-arrest-of-traveler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/04/26/no-fly-case-goes-forward-against-feds-while-sfo-pays-through-the-nose-for-false-arrest-of-traveler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve noted previously that, as the DHS increasingly relies on state and local law enforcement officers and private contractors to carry out its extrajudicial &#8220;no-fly&#8221;, search, and surveillance orders, those individuals and their employers face a growing risk of liability for their actions against travelers.
Case in point: Ibrahim v. DHS et al.
We&#8217;ve reported previously on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Parliament approves PNR agreement with the US. What&#8217;s next?</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/04/25/european-parliament-approves-pnr-agreement-with-the-us-whats-next/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/04/25/european-parliament-approves-pnr-agreement-with-the-us-whats-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Last week &#8212; despite the demonstration shown above (more photos here) by Members of the European Parliament as their colleagues entered the plenary chamber for the vote &#8212; the European Parliament acquiesced, reluctantly, to an agreement with the US Department of Homeland Security to allow airlines that do business in the EU to give the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All US police to get access to international travel records?</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/03/07/all-us-police-to-get-access-to-international-travel-records/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/03/07/all-us-police-to-get-access-to-international-travel-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from the &#8220;All international travelers are suspected terrorists&#8221; department:
In response to questions (see the video at approx. 37:00-38:30) from members of a House Homeland Security subcommittee during a hearing yesterday, DHS Deputy Counter-Terrorism Coordinator John Cohen said that, as part of the Orwellianly-named &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; program, local police will soon be receiving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New questions from European Parliament about &#8220;bypass&#8221; of EU-US agreement on PNR</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/03/05/new-questions-from-european-parliament-about-bypass-of-eu-us-agreement-on-pnr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/03/05/new-questions-from-european-parliament-about-bypass-of-eu-us-agreement-on-pnr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Important new questions about how the US government can bypass the proposed EU-US agreement on access to PNR data have been asked by a key Member of the European Parliament.
These new questions by MEP Sophie in &#8216;t Veld (the Europarl &#8220;rapporteur&#8221; or floor leader on the proposed PNR agreement) follow up on evasive, misleading, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google is now in the PNR hosting business</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/03/01/google-is-now-in-the-pnr-hosting-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/03/01/google-is-now-in-the-pnr-hosting-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Google and Cape Air announced that Cape Air has migrated its reservations and Passenger Name Records (PNRs) to a new computerized reservation system (CRS) provided by Google&#8217;s ITA Software division.
ITA Software was working on a CRS even before it was acquired by Google last year, but had appeared to lack a launch customer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Commissioner responds to Parliamentary question on CRSs</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/02/16/european-commissioner-responds-to-parliamentary-question-on-crss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/02/16/european-commissioner-responds-to-parliamentary-question-on-crss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve noted previously, members of the European Parliament have been exercising their right to question the European Commission about the proposed agreement negotiated by the EC with the USA to give travel companies partial immunity from EU privacy law when they open their reservation (&#8221;PNR&#8220;) databases to the US Department of Homeland Security.
Numerous written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another US citizen denied their right of return</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/02/06/yet-another-us-citizen-denied-their-right-of-return/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2012/02/06/yet-another-us-citizen-denied-their-right-of-return/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest variation on what has become a depressingly-familiar theme, US citizen Jamal Tarhuni was denied boarding on a flight home to the USA last month, apparently because while he was abroad the US government put him on the list of those people it has secretly ordered airlines not to transport.
Mr. Tarhuni had been [...]]]></description>
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