Listen up, serfs: Amtrak asks TSA to start screening rail passengers against terrorist watchlist for first time

Khalid Turaani knows what it's like to be on a secret government watchlist.

He learned about his status on it, not from an official letter or communication, but when TSA officers stopped him from flying one day in 2017.

"They told me that I am on the no-fly list and that I cannot board that flight," Turaani recalled in an interview.
Khalid Turaani was stopped by the government from flying and then challenged his inclusion on a ‘no fly’ list

Listen up, serfs: Amtrak asks TSA to start screening rail passengers against terrorist watchlist for first time Amtrak-pia-1649195954

Listen up, serfs: Amtrak asks TSA to start screening rail passengers against terrorist watchlist for first time Amtrak-pia-1649195954

Results from a public records request he submitted that same year to the Department of Homeland Security confirmed – in writing – what he suspected: that his name had been assigned "no-fly" status.

With the help of an attorney at the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America, Turaani successfully challenged the designation through the formal redress process. In December 2017, DHS sent him a letter, writing that it had "made any corrections" including those "that may assist in avoiding incidents of misidentification" but never disclosed why Turaani had been on the list in the first place. He has not been blocked from flying since. The attorney working on his behalf shared those documents with Hearst Television.

"So much harassment," Turaani said. "And it was really frustrating. And to tell you the truth, it was also humiliating."
Amtrak to screen passengers against watchlist

Soon, more people may find themselves ensnared by the same screening.

Amtrak has asked the TSA to start screening some of its passengers against the Terrorist Screening Database watchlist maintained by the Threat Screening Center to see if known or suspected terrorists have been riding the rails, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security privacy impact document obtained by the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit.

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Listen up, serfs: Amtrak asks TSA to start screening rail passengers against terrorist watchlist for first time

Listen up, serfs: Amtrak asks TSA to start screening rail passengers against terrorist watchlist for first time

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