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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

New Lawsuit Claims FBI Used No Fly List To Pressure Muslims Into Becoming Informants:

Over the past few months, we've covered the bizarre trial of Rahinah Ibrahim, who was incorrectly placed on the no fly list, leading to a series of other problems, meaning that the Stanford PhD grad student was unable to fly back into the US for the past ten years. When the unredacted ruling in that case was finally released last week, we discovered that Ibrahim is still in the "terrorist screening database" (TSDB), though not on the no fly list, and barred from getting a visa to travel back to the US, even though the US admits she's no threat, because of a "secret exception" to the "reasonable suspicion" standard. And, given that the exception is secret, we may never know what it is.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140423/06225826 996/new-lawsuit-claims-fbi-used-no-fly-list-to-pre ssure-muslims-into-becoming-informants.shtml [techdirt.com]

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