Common Dreams reports
A federal court on [October 26] ruled that a Michigan man can challenge his inclusion on the government's "No Fly List", in a move that is being celebrated as a victory for the hundreds of U.S. citizens assigned to that secretive list, as well as the countless Arab-Americans routinely subjected to similar racial profiling.
Reversing a previous district court ruling, [6th] Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons ordered (pdf) "further proceedings" in the case of Saeb Mokdad, a Lebanese-American who since September 2012 has been prohibited three times from boarding a plane to visit his family in Lebanon.
[...] There are currently as many as 47,000 people currently on the U.S. government's "No Fly List" according to documents[1] leaked to The Intercept last year, including 800 Americans.
[1] Content is behind scripts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @10:17PM
...but...but they might use what's in their toiletry pouch to manufacture A BOMB in-flight. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [theregister.co.uk]
I really really miss Thomas C. Greene's columns in El Reg.
...and this would be the point where we remind everyone that it was PASSENGERS who subdued both the shoe bomber and the panty bomber after those guys were already ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT.
-- gewg_