Airports STILL Can't check passengers against terrorist watch lists?

"Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Tuesday that the government is moving quickly to create a computerized screening system that will check airline passengers against lists of suspected terrorists," per USA Today.

Moving quickly??????

Blame falls on Clinton and Bush Sr. and Reagan and Carter and back into the mists of time. But this is ridiculous. I thought it was absurd when I found after 9/11 that airports couldn't check against updated terrorist watch lists. Three years after that attack on our soil, I find it frightening and infuriating. I know there are difficult technical issues. But three years? That's absurd.