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Panich52

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Fri Dec 11, 2015, 12:50 PM Dec 2015

ACLU Pushes For More Transparency On No-Fly List

National Memo

ACLU Pushes For More Transparency On No-Fly List

In a case that could help demystify how the FBI deems somebody a terror threat, the ACLU argued in federal court here Wednesday that the government has failed to comply with an earlier court order to tell people how they wound up on the no-fly list.

http://link.nationalmemo.com/click/5706482.92038/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uYXRpb25hbG1lbW8uY29tL2FjbHUtcHVzaGVzLWZvci1tb3JlLXRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1vbi1uby1mbHktbGlzdA/5390d3d3dd52b8141a0aafe5C80303cf1


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Chris Hayes said the Right was against using no-fly list for background checks. He neglected to mention that there are those on the left who also are opposed — not because they're against gun control, but because the list is so flawed. Hayes, himself pointed this out on the same show: the case of Saadiq Long which RW media flouted but neglected to actually investigate for the truth ( http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/chris-hayes-rips-conservative-media-for-pushing-fake-story-linking-exiled-veteran-to-isis/ ).

There are many on the left who have a higher regard for liberty than temporary security (like Ben Franklin) and who decry the secretive nature of the list and the convoluted, difficult bureaucratic nightmare to appeal. For me, it also brings back memories of J Edgar Hoover and Tricky Dick Nixon who compiled similar secretive and politically-based lists in the turbulent decade known as "The 60s."

If the no-fly list is to be used to deprive some citizens of what many consider an individual right, guaranteed by the Constitution, fix the list and bring it into the sunlight.

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ACLU Pushes For More Transparency On No-Fly List (Original Post) Panich52 Dec 2015 OP
Fix the list and I'll have no problem using it for gun background checks. Until then I'm opposed Purveyor Dec 2015 #1
 

Purveyor

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1. Fix the list and I'll have no problem using it for gun background checks. Until then I'm opposed
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 12:52 PM
Dec 2015

to it for gun background check purposes.

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