Scholar successfully gets her name taken off the No-Fly List

[thewayne]

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/

Comments

[silveradept]

And thus, having been forced to admit the government does make mistakes, the keepers of the No-Fly list...just hope things go away.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Apparently an FBI agent filled out a form directly opposite of what the instructions said to do on the form, and *POOF*! Instant no-fly list entry!

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-list-bungle/

[silveradept]

Which explains why the scholar was successful. Had that intended it, there would have been no way to get off the list.