If you take/have the time to follow the links some questions about the validity of accusation arise; 1) Contact and explanation seem to center around a "clerk" at the airport. 2)The professor was allowed on the plane and didn't seem to have the same problem on the return flight. 3)It doesn't seem like the orgs that posted the reports verified the information.
Professor who criticized Bush told added to terrorist 'no-fly' list
Contributed by: rearguard
Michael Roston Published: Monday April 9, 2007
A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a televised speech that slammed President George W. Bush's executive overreach was recently told that he had been added to the Transportation Security Administration's terrorist watch list. He shared his experience this weekend at the law blog Balkinization.
Walter F. Murphy, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Emeritus, at Princeton University, attempted to check his luggage at the curbside in Albuquerque before boarding a plane to Newark, New Jersey. Murphy was told he could not use the service.
"I was denied a boarding pass because I was on the Terrorist Watch list," he said.
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