Quickly and quietly, no-fly list expands

The Obama administration has transferred dozens of names from a broad terrorism database to watch lists that are more closely monitored in an effort to plug security holes revealed by the Christmas Day airline-bombing attempt…

White House spokesman Bill Burton said counterterrorism officials have examined “thousands upon thousands” of names from the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list, to which Mr. Abdulmutallab was added in November. Dozens of names were shifted to the Transportation Security Administration’s no-fly list, or to the Secondary Security Screening Selection list, also known as the selectee list.