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1 similar Passenger Name Record Agreement contracts
NOTEPassenger Name Record Agreement • June 11th, 2009
On August 10, 2006, London police successfully stopped a group of terrorists plotting to use liquid explosives to bomb nine planes flying from the United Kingdom to the United States.1 The plot- ters had hoped to set off these explosives mid-flight, killing an esti- mated 2,700 passengers.2 Several weeks after the arrests, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he claimed that these terrorist plots failed “precisely because of timely, actionable intelligence, properly shared and acted upon before the terrorists could carry out their plans.”3 He noted that one investigative resource essential to continued success in this area was passenger name record (PNR) data, information, gathered by airlines and travel agencies, which include such valuable clues as “travel itiner- aries and payment details.”4 Chertoff then lamented that despite agreements with European partners, the United States remained “handcuffed in our abi
