If Barack Obama wants to see his popularity hit 110% his first week in office, I’d suggest one simple step: publish an Executive Order establishing a Terrorist Watch List Review Board and a process by which any citizen or permanent resident who has been stopped at the border but then cleared for entry to the country can file a demand (by email) that his case be reviewed. Whoever put his name on the list would have 15 days to provide a written justification for doing so, which the Review Board would review in secret, after which it could order the removal of that person’s name from the list.
Here’s a first-hand account of the nightmare of being stuck on the list.
h/t Kevin Drum