“Priority List”

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up an Amsterdam flight bound for Detroit on Christmas day was not on Homeland Security’s “no-fly” list, but he was on the lower priority Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, list of about 550,000 names. Not surprisingly, he was also on Santa’s “Naughty” list.