Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

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/

I really love the article title: Too Scary To Fly, Not Scary Enough To Arrest. "Ten U.S citizens and residents, three of whom are veterans, are stuck abroad or cannot fly within or out of the United States because they are wrongly on a no-fly list, according to a federal lawsuit lodged Wednesday. The suit was filed by the ACLU in Oregon. Senator Ted Kennedy was on the additional screening list.

Here's a list of the names:

* Adama Bah, 22-year-old citizen of Guinea was granted refugee status and lives in New York. She is barred from flying from the United States.
* Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye, a 49-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen and imam of Oregon, is denied flight to Dubai, where his daughter lives.
* Ayman Latif, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen and disabled Marine veteran residing in Egypt, is denied flight from Egypt to the United States for medical evaluation.
* Steven Washburn, a 54-year-old U.S. citizen and Air Force veteran, is denied flight to United States from Britain.
* Raymond Earl Kneable IV, a 29-year-old U.S. Citizen and Army veteran, recently traveled from United States to Colombia to get married and visit relatives. He is barred from returning to California.
* Halime Sat, a 28-year-old German citizen and U.S. resident, is barred from flying from the United States.
* Nagib Ali Ghaleb, a 39-year-old U.S. citizen, is stuck in Yemen where he traveled from California to visit family.
* Samir Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen, is trapped in Yemen where he traveled from California to visit family.
* Abdullatif Muthanna, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen, is stuck in Yemen where he traveled from New York to visit family members.
* Saleh Omar, a 35-year-old lawful U.S. resident, is denied flight to United States from Yemen, where he was visiting relatives.

A disabled Marine Veteran, injured during their service, not allowed to return to the US for medical treatment. The list has no photographs, no fingerprints, just a name. And if your name is on the list....

One of the commentators suggested they change their name to George Bush.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/no-fly/