[IP] Judge Scolds U.S. Officials Over Barring Jet Travelers
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From: Steve Bellovin <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 16, 2004 11:25:08 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Judge Scolds U.S. Officials Over Barring Jet Travelers
WASHINGTON, June 15 - A federal judge on Tuesday accused the federal
government of using "frivolous claims" to avoid publicly disclosing who
is banned from boarding airplanes because of terrorism concerns.
The sharply worded accusation came in a lawsuit brought by the American
Civil Liberties Union and others seeking to find out how hundreds of
people wound up on the government's "no fly" list after the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. The list of banned passengers has been a frequent
target for civil rights advocates who accuse the Bush administration of
using excessive secrecy in its campaign against terrorism.
The judge who is hearing the lawsuit, Charles R. Breyer of Federal
District Court in San Francisco, said in an opinion released Tuesday
that he had privately reviewed voluminous government materials and that
in many cases, government lawyers did not appear to have met their
burden of proving that the material was exempt from the Freedom of
Information Act.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/16/politics/16flight.html
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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