Pilot sues TSA & DHS after he is deemed security threat

BOSTON - A British citizen is suing federal authorities for deeming him a potential threat to national security and refusing to let him be trained to fly large planes.
Robert William Gray, 34, has been living in the United States since 1993 and has been flying small commercial planes since 1997. For the last four years, he has been flying for Cape Air, and has occasionally carried U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., on his flights.
Gray sought permission last fall from the Transportation Security Administration to take flight training courses so he could fly larger planes. But the TSA rejected his request, saying he poses a ``threat to aviation or national security.''
He was told only that the decision was based on derogatory information that the agency would not disclose because it was classified, Gray said.

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