Hey, the FBI should open a travel agency, to go with the 'housecleaning' fronts they run. Tomlinson says the Security Dudes in the better hotels are already on TLA payroll. At 02:15 PM 10/22/01 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:

.. and a companion article says that some hotel chains are prepared to do pre-screening for their customers, too, and have responded to FBI requests for information after 9/11. In particular, Hilton Hotels, which also owns the Hampton Inn, Doubletree, and Embassy Suites chains, as well as the Waldorf-Astoria in NY and Palmer House in Chicago, says that they've already got the technology in place and that it would be easy for them to incorporate the necessary configuration changes. The CIO of Hilton is says the only obstacle would be "privacy-related issues", which are likely to be no issue at all if customers don't know it's happening or don't get an opportunity to object.