Wednesday, February 12, 2014

That no-fly list? The one Schumer & Co. think should also be used (link fixed)

to take away 2nd Amendment rights?
FBI agent Kevin Kelley was investigating Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 when he checked the wrong box on a terrorism form, erroneously placing Rahinah Ibrahim on the no-fly list.

What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials claimed repeatedly that disclosing the reason Ibrahim was detained, or even acknowledging that she’d been placed on a watch list, would cause serious damage to the U.S. national security. Again and again they asserted the so-called “state secrets privilege” to block the 48-year-old woman’s lawsuit, which sought only to clear her name.

Holder went so far as to tell the judge presiding over the case that this assertion of the state secrets privilege was fully in keeping with Obama’s much-ballyhooed 2009 executive branch reforms of the privilege, which stated the administration would invoke state secrets sparingly.
Lies and corruption all the way down.  From the EffingBI unwilling to fix the error to Holder and the TSA and every other lying bastard using 'state secret' crap to cover up and error.

Please do take note that it's not just Congress Clapper is comfortable lying to; he also doesn't mind lying to judges.

At one point, Judge Alsup dismissed the case. A federal appeals court reinstated it in 2012, more than a year after Alsup tossed it. A month before Ibrahim’s trial, the judge said he learned the Kafkaesque truth. “I feel that I have been had by the government,” he said in a November pretrial conference.
You too?

Which brings up the obvious question of just how many people on this list are there because of error?  How many because somebody wanted to screw with them for some reason?

And clowns like Schumer want to use it to deny people basic enumerated rights...

1 comment:

markm said...

Did you forget a link?