Feb. 3rd, 2014
This is a few weeks old, but still significant. The woman is a Malaysian national who was in an architecture program at Standford. She was going to fly to Hawaii to present a paper, and was told she couldn't fly, and was kept for hours and interrogated, asked if she had connections to a Malaysian terror group. Eventually she left the country and has not been able to return, even for her law suit. She had to do all depositions via video tape.
The judge ordered the government to remove her name from the No-Fly List because she was put on it as a result of a bureaucratic error. Of over 800,000 people on the list, including the late Senator Ted Kennedy, how many are mistakes?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/no-fly-ruling/
The judge ordered the government to remove her name from the No-Fly List because she was put on it as a result of a bureaucratic error. Of over 800,000 people on the list, including the late Senator Ted Kennedy, how many are mistakes?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/no-fly-ruling/