[Politech] Privacy Villain: No-fly stonewallers at FBI, TSA [priv]

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 01:44 PM 6/24/04 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Subject: [NCCP] Privacy Villain: No-fly stonewallers
>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:59:12 -0400
>From: J Plummer <jplummer at consumeralert.org>
>
>
>Privacy Hero of the Week:
>No-fly stonewallers
>
>By James Plummer
>
>US District Court Judge Charles Breyer for Northern California ruled
this
>week that the FBI and the Transportation Security Agency have been
>illegally stonewalling Freedom of Information Act requests by travelers

>demanding details on the so-called "no-fly" list which grounded them.
><http://www1.law.ucla.edu/~volokh/blog_data/gordon.pdf>
>
>The action was brought by two antiwar activists and journalists who
were
>detained at San Francisco International Airport because their names
were on
>the list. Rebecca Gordon and Janet Adams demanded information about the

>list, including how many people are on it, and how travelers get added
or
>removed.
>
>Both agencies repeatedly claimed such information was classified and
>"sensitive." Judge Breyer ruled such claims were "frivolous" and said
the
>government "has not come close" to meeting its legal obligations.

Gordon, Adams, and Breyer are American Heroes.

For the rest, I'll bring the rope.