U.S. to tell Americans why they're on no-fly list
Source: CNN
(CNN)Americans on the United States' no-fly list will now be privy to information about why they have been banned from commercial flights and be given the opportunity to dispute their status, according to court documents filed by the Justice Department this week.
The revised policy comes in response to a June ruling by a federal judge that said the old process was in violation of the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process. The decision was part of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit brought on behalf of 13 Americans on the list.
But the ACLU isn't satisfied with the government's new policy, outlined in documents filed Monday in federal courts in Oregon (PDF) and Virginia (PDF).
"After years of fighting in court for complete secrecy and losing, it's good that the government is finally now going to tell people of their status on the No Fly List," said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project and the lead attorney on the case, in a statement.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/15/travel/americans-no-fly-list-feat/
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See, how transparent they are now.
Gee, and it only took them a decade and a half to figure that one out! But according to their past actions and statements, the Obama Administration believes that the definition of ''due process'' includes only one branch of government's (his) review of a citizen's legal rights (ideas that were possibly cribbed from Clarence Thomas no less!). You know, like in a dictatorship. Except with secret lawyer's rulings passing as a due process scam.
- That's how the famous Obama Kill List Memo© was born.
And others died.......
So very nice of the government, isn't it? 
I never went to the airport without a feeling of anticipatory dread.
The occasional TSA authoritarian could be quite nasty, though most of them seemed ashamed when I'd present my military ID.
On one occasion, a fellow passenger (not being harassed) piped up on my behalf with a "What kind of shit is this?" refrain, and quite a few other people in the general vicinity voiced agreement and started griping and mumbling "Bullshit!" "Ridiculous!" etc. This is when I was still carting a bag...I will say that warmed the cockles of my heart!
The first time I sailed through the process (Thanks, Obama!!! 
) after enduring all those years of humiliation, I was as giddy as a grade schooler! No marks on the boarding pass? Surely they'll get me at the first checkpoint...? I couldn't believe that I was being waved through like a regular person! Don't get too hopeful...they'll get me at the x-ray machines....No? It's a MIRACLE! I felt like I'd won the lottery, simply because I wasn't being poked, prodded, questioned and goaded. It took me awhile before I started carrying a bag again, though--for the longest time, I felt like the "lifting of sanctions" was some kind of mistake!
