Seen in the Washington Times:
False identifications based on a terrorist no-fly list have for years prevented some federal air marshals from boarding flights they are assigned to protect, according to officials with the agency, which is finally taking steps to address the problem. [...]
“In some cases, planes have departed without any coverage because the airline employees were adamant they would not fly,” said the air marshal, who asked not to be named because the job requires anonymity. “I’ve seen guys actually being denied boarding.”
Having a no fly list is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, it makes sense that you’d keep folks who might want to turn aircraft into manually-guided cruise missiles off those aircraft.
The problem with the no-fly list arises from the hassles faced by folks who are confused as being a suspect on the list. It seems to be rather challenging to prove that you are you rather than someone with a similar name, in a manner to appease paranoid bureaucrat.
That folks working in a different branch of the air-security theater are getting snagged by the no-fly list, is just very amusing to me.