Theater of the absurd6-year-old Ohio girl on DHS's terror watch list
A 6-year old Ohio girl made to go through secondary screening at Cleveland airport before being allowed on board because her name was on TSA’s terror watch list; the family contacted DHS, and the 6-year old received a letter from the department which would neither confirm nor deny any information they have about her
A family in Ohio learned that their 6-year-old daughter is on DHS’s terror watch list when they attempted to make a flight from Cleveland to Minneapolis. A ticket agent informed Santhosh Thomas that his daughter Alyssa was on the list.
“She may have threatened her sister,” Thomas told CNN. “But I don’t think that constitutes Homeland Security triggers.”
New York Daily News’s Joe Tacopino writes that Alyssa was still allowed to fly, but had to go through extra security.
After the family contacted DHS, Alyssa received a letter that would neither confirm nor deny any information they have about her or someone else with her name.
Officials maintained the importance of the list. “The watch lists are an important layer of security to prevent individuals with known or suspected ties to terrorism from flying,” a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) told Fox News.
