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“In at least some instances, requiring the Government to disclose sensitive information regarding its grounds for placing or removing a person from the No-Fly List could undermine the Government’s significant interests in airline safety and the prevention of terrorist attack,” Alito wrote.

Horseshit. I don't know what part of "due process" people don't understand. If the government is limiting your right to movement, they need to prove why when questioned. No exceptions. Especially so if the individual(s) in question have not been charged with any crime.

The "No Fly List" is unconstitutional garbage. The list is secret, you can't get the fuck off of it, and it's absolutely riddled with errors.

I applaud SCOTUS for not allowing the Federal Government to retract Fikre's listing and then claim the issue is "moot" to avoid a potentially unfavorable ruling.

The No Fly List needs to be de-invented. Immediately.

2009 was the first year of the Obama presidency, and changes at the DOJ and FBI are slow. So my first question is: Who signed off on his mistreatment? Whose name is on the order, and did that person start at the FBI with Obama, or in an earlier administration?

The government should not be allowed to make a case moot just because it would be inconvenient for them. I'm pretty sure that by the time SCOTUS grants cert, it's because there's a genuine legal principle that needs resolving, not just for the individual case. (At least in normal times, current court notwithstanding.)

While I'm very much in favor of a No Fly List in principle, the way it is implemented is just obviously unconstitutional.

I get that if you make the list publicly available, or even only available if you ask if you are on it, that lets potential enemies know they've been identified and possibly infiltrated. There's a reason why certain pieces of seemingly inconsequential information is classified, because if the enemy knows we know, then they know we've put a spy in their ranks. And depending on the information, it might be easy for them to identify WHO the spy is. But this has real-world impacts on real people, and if you have no idea why you are on there, that you are even on there, or how to get off of there, then that is horribly unconstitutional.

There was a golden moment, after the raid on Trump's club, when reactionaries were openly calling to de-fund the FBI. Dems should have taken them up on that offer.

Whenever the FBI "disrupts" a terrorist plot. Until proven otherwise, I assume that the FBI masterminded the plot, provided all the materials and funding, then arrest the people they recruited. And you watch, now that focus has been shifted to reactionary terrorism, they're going to do the same shit, except replace Islamist suckers for militia patsies. It's important to remember this because these tactics shift resources to railroad dumbasses (easy) instead of investigating the actual threats (hard).

Strong arming Fikre to become a snitch reminds me of what happened to Randy Weaver.

Fuck the federal police

Wait, this guy got OFF the list?

Somebody better tell David Nelson.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/jun/16/20030616-104109-4241r/