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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: roo_ster on February 12, 2014, 07:02:20 PM
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/
After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii: FBI human error.
FBI agent Kevin Kelley was investigating Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 when he checked the wrong box on a terrorism form, erroneously placing Rahinah Ibrahim on the no-fly list.
What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials claimed repeatedly that disclosing the reason Ibrahim was detained, or even acknowledging that she’d been placed on a watch list, would cause serious damage to the U.S. national security. Again and again they asserted the so-called “state secrets privilege” to block the 48-year-old woman’s lawsuit, which sought only to clear her name.
The judge wrote:
At long last, the government has conceded that plaintiff poses no threat to air safety or national security and should never have been placed on the no-fly list. She got there by human error within the FBI. This too is conceded. This was no minor human error but an error with palpable impact, leading to the humiliation, cuffing, and incarceration of an innocent and incapacitated air traveler. That it was human error may seem hard to accept — the FBI agent filled out the nomination form in a way exactly opposite from the instructions on the form, a bureaucratic analogy to a surgeon amputating the wrong digit — human error, yes, but of considerable consequence.
Do not click the link and read the statements made by Clapper, Holder, and others unless you want the Red Curtain of Blood to descend upon your vision.
None of these folks or agencies are trustworthy enough to have these powers. Hell, they are not trustworthy enough to have classification authority.
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None of these folks or agencies are trustworthy enough to have these powers. Hell, they are not trustworthy enough to have classification authority.
I wouldn't trust them if they told me July followed June. :mad:
How utterly low this nation has sunk.......... :'( :'( :mad: :mad: :'( :'(
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I wouldn't trust them if they told me July followed June. :mad:
How utterly low this nation has sunk.......... :'( :'( :mad: :mad: :'( :'(
The terrorists have won.
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The terrorists have won.
No, they didn't do anything to us; we did.
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So did the judge take any action or make any rulings? If not, she accomplished nothing for the plaintiff.
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So did the judge take any action or make any rulings? If not, she accomplished nothing for the plaintiff.
He ordered them to take her off the list and gave them the standard 30 day suspense to get it done.
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If we have to break a few eggs in the war on terror, so be it. After all, NINE ELEVEN
Hear me?
NINE
ELEVEN
Any abuses, coverups, or drone struck weddings where 30 are killed to bag one turrist, is worth it.
Quiet, citizens
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He ordered them to take her off the list and gave them the standard 30 day suspense to get it done.
That is pretty small considering they essentially lied nearly the entire case.
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This crap will stop suddenly when the perps suffer consequences of their actions. Legal advice was pro bono which means someone else paid. What price will the perps pay other than a sternly worded memo in their personnel jacket. Outrageous and consistent.
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This crap will stop suddenly when the perps suffer consequences of their actions.....
I'm sure someone somewhere is taking notes.
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I'm sure someone somewhere is taking notes.
Henry Bowman, are you listening?