Matt Collins
07-01-2010, 04:47 PM
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/no-fly
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 Oregon federal court case claims the plaintiffs, many with Middle Eastern names who have committed no legal wrongdoing, have asked the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration for an explanation, to no avail.
The government, according to the suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, has not offered any explanation for plaintiffs’ “apparent placement” on the no-fly list or any other watch list. “They’re too scary to fly but not scary enough to arrest,” quipped Ben Wizner, an ACLU attorney on the case.
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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 Oregon federal court case claims the plaintiffs, many with Middle Eastern names who have committed no legal wrongdoing, have asked the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration for an explanation, to no avail.
The government, according to the suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, has not offered any explanation for plaintiffs’ “apparent placement” on the no-fly list or any other watch list. “They’re too scary to fly but not scary enough to arrest,” quipped Ben Wizner, an ACLU attorney on the case.
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