WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee heard this morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch lists. Sen. Edward Kennedy (search), D-Mass., says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the U.S. Airways (search) shuttle out of Washington to Boston. The ticket agent wouldn't let him on the plane. His name was on the list in error.
After a flurry of phone calls, Kennedy was able to fly home, but then the same thing happened coming back to Washington.
Kennedy says it took three calls to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge (search) to get his name stricken from the list. The process took several weeks, in all.
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