Profiles in secrecy.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v29 |
| Issue | n9 |
| Published | 1998-02-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
Josh Mangum was checking in for his boarding pass at the gate in San Francisco airport in August. He had purchased his ticket over the Net. Mangum, a computer programmer recently graduated from Stanford, is dark-complexioned and hadn't shaved that day. He looked, by his own self-description, "like a picture of a terrorist."
The gate attendant called up Mangum's information. He then told Mangum that he must have his carry-on bag hand-searched by an agent (he'd already gone through the typical X-ray machine) before he could get his boarding pass. Mangum reluctantly agreed. He was...
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