anyone remember when Dick Gephart was running for Prez and said he heard airling passenges forming their own Vigilantly groups incase the airline was attacked?

and he indicated it was a bad thing

I was positive this man was an Irishman named O'Hara, guess I was wrong.

My question to TSA,airlines, and Napolitano who says "the system works!!" is this:

How could this man, and Noibi the end of June, manage to board the plane and not match the flight manifest?

I fly Delta. It has always, always bugged me that "you no longer need your photo ID after going through TSA mugging." Ok. Now you are in a secure area and can put your ID away as you have the magic boarding pass with its own special barcode for scanning. The Delta gate computer always knows I am in the exit aisle, so what about the date of the flight and/duh matching the manifest?

Keep in mind the Noibi from Nigeria story of two weeks ago (he will appear in Federal Court tomorrow and is held in LA). This man, who has dual passports from the US (which he "lost") and Nigeria (which he "forgot"). Yet he managed to go through JFK security with an expired University of Michigan ID and a boarding pass from the day before. The reason he was checked by flight attendants, in first class of Virgin American Airlines....not because he did not match the manifest...but because he had body odor and passengers complained! Then he was allowed to leave LAX and God knows what he was doing in LA. He was then caught---four days later--- trying to pass the Delta security desk with another expired boarding pass in another name to Atlanta.

The FBI questioned him in LA,the judge has held him. And, here is the kicker: in his possession were FIFTEEN expired boarding passes, none in his name.

He got on board, and has probably done this many times, because he is a) black, b) from another country with an accent and we must be nice to foreigners, and c) because TSA is incompetent and people are not checking the manifest and photo ID to match the boarding passes at the gate. An alarm did go off, and he was allowed to board:
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The thing is, Noibi was born in this country but resides in Nigeria (apparently, he could reside in airports as he flies so often). From his Facebook account you can see he has mastered the English language. Yet...he used, time and time again, the excuse that, "He missed his flight." He then, per Facebook statment, cried and/or acted upset and, poor foreign boy, got on flights. He knew no person, he says in LA, nor did he have any cash on him. And he was able to fly cross-country.

Rep. Peter King was questioning TSA about this.

Noibi and Alramakh are testing security, of that there is no doubt. This is outrageous almost ten years after 9/11. And Napolitano has a lot to answer.

This story was reported on the Chicago news yesterday. Conspicuously absent was the subject's name and any other identifying information such as nationality.

Let's hope the next president (2012, NOT Obama) has the logic, reason and spine to institute 'intelligent profiling'. In fact, it should be a part of the GOP platform. Yes, of course, the MSM and Dems (redundant) will howl about fear mongering, racism, ethnicism and any other -ism that they can come up with. However, while they are doing that, a majority of voters will be saying 'Halleluja'. Oh wait, they shouldn't say that...that would be Judeo-Christian gloating ;)

Yes, well thank goodness the 6-year old behind Alramakh in the security line at O'Hare was patted down by the eagle-eyes at TSA at least twice for explosives or weapons ...

My brother has long said that if every passenger were issued a brick upon boarding a plane, we would no longer have a hijacking problem.

The TSA a huge waste of time and money, but I'm not sure what they could have found. It sounds like he only broke the rules once on the plane.

Even a strip-search and X-ray scan wouldn't reveal that he planned to stand up too early and engage in unauthorized texting.

About the only thing TSA could have done to prevent this was to engage in profiling so notorious that it would have discouraged Saudi students from even buying plane tickets in the first place.

Thanks, I didn't read the article, just skimmed the quoted text. That definitely is a discrepancy that somebody could've checked for.

I'm just guessing based off the last half-dozen times I've flown, but does TSA even check against the passenger list? The way I remember it, the TSA person just looks at your ID and boarding pass, and doesn't cross-reference it against anything. I think the airline scans the pass into a machine, so probably the airline dropped the ball, right? Or am I missing something?

I was against the TSA since before it was created, so I'm not defending them or their frisking policies. But the criticism seems misplaced here.

Virgin Airways said this was an "anomaly" at the gate...the alarm when Noibi's outdated boarding pass was scanned and he whined his excuse of "missing" his flight. Sadly I have shredded and thrown away all of my old boarding passes, as this travel for nothing is a bargain!

The guy who lost his boarding pass on the subway to JFK (which Noibi nabbed even though he is "unstable") said he then printed one at a kiosk at JFK. No problem printing several, I guess.

This should be an immediate fix until either software corrections to only print one boarding pass for same flight without an alarms, bells, whistles, and frisking: one boarding pass per customer, matched with photo ID at the gate.

I am not a genius, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. A little common sense goes a long way in fighting terrorism.

Let's see, we have the Shoe Bomber, the Panty Bomber, and this guy is, I guess, the Spitting Bomber.