Jesselyn Radack and the "No-Fly" List.

[reprehensor]

Last summer ('05) I interviewed Coleen Rowley, Ann Wright, and Jesselyn Radack. During Radack's interview she spoke of her experience with the "No-Fly" list. It's pretty clear to me that the list is not generated to protect us, it's generated to make life difficult for "Enemies of the Bush".

...and so when I went to find the emails to comply with the Court Order, they were gone. So I resurrected the emails from my computer archives, I resigned, and when it appeared to me that the emails still had not reached the court, I sent them over to Newsweek.

So after that, they were obviously mad, I didn’t know how mad they would get, but they got me fired from my private sector job, and put me under criminal investigation. For what, I cannot tell you, because they never told me. That went on for about a year and a half, and as soon as that was over they referred me to the Maryland and D.C. Bars where I am licensed as an attorney, and during that time period, I was also put on the ‘No-fly List’…

…Every time I flew, I had to undergo secondary screening procedures… like 19 times. After 19 times I quit collecting the little ‘TSA’ things they put in your bags every time. I called the TSA Ombudsperson, and they would neither confirm nor deny that I was on the list. One airline told me that I was on the list.

Then, I reported to the ACLU, which had filed a lawsuit and was keeping track of the issue. As far as I know, there is no official way to find out if you’re on the list, or to get off of it. It’s just that the probability of being stopped 19 times out of the 19 times that you fly is like, one in 3 billion or something, my husband the economist calculated this for me.

And also, when I found out some of the other people who were on the list, people from the ACLU, anti-war protestors, people who seemed to be in some ways political enemies of the administration, it made a little more sense to me. Plus, senior administration officials called me a traitor and a turncoat and a terrorist sympathizer in the New York Times so, in a way it’s not that surprising that I would end up on a ‘watch-list’, I guess.

[fasttense]

1. If crazy King George used the no-fly list for political

purposes, what makes you think he didn't use NSA spying on American citizens without judicial oversight for political purposes?

Snip:

"And also, when I found out some of the other people who were on the list, people from the ACLU, anti-war protesters, people who seemed to be in some ways political enemies of the administration, it made a little more sense to me. Plus, senior administration officials called me a traitor and a turncoat and a terrorist sympathizer in the New York Times so, in a way it’s not that surprising that I would end up on a ‘watch-list’, I guess."

So, have you figured out what the crazy King is really protecting? Maybe it's his own a**.