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Quotation of the Day for February 20, 2014"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." - William Alsup, U.S. District Judge, in a ruling on Rahinah Ibrahim, who was mistakenly placed on the U.S. no-fly list. Her attempts at redress were systematically blocked by government officials. [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 13, 2014  |
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