“In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the nation’s largest airlines, including American, United and Northwest, turned over millions of passenger records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, airline and law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday [April 30, 2004]. A senior official with the F.B.I. said the airlines cooperated willingly. …’There was no reluctance on the part of anybody,’ added the senior F.B.I. official, who said that bureau rules required him to speak anonymously.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– John Schwartz and Micheline Maynard, “Airlines Gave F.B.I. Millions of Records on Travelers After 9/11,” The New York Times, May 1, 2004