US anti-war activists hit by secret airport ban

[Robbien]

By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
03 August 2003


After more than a year of complaints by some US anti-war activists that they were being unfairly targeted by airport security, Washington has admitted the existence of a list, possibly hundreds or even thousands of names long, of people it deems worthy of special scrutiny at airports.

The list had been kept secret until its disclosure last week by the new US agency in charge of aviation safety, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). And it is entirely separate from the relatively well-publicised "no-fly" list, which covers about 1,000 people believed to have criminal or terrorist ties that could endanger the safety of their fellow passengers.

The strong suspicion of such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is suing the government to try to learn more, is that the second list has been used to target political activists who challenge the government in entirely legal ways. The TSA acknowledged the existence of the list in response to a Freedom of Information Act request concerning two anti-war activists from San Francisco who were stopped and briefly detained at the airport last autumn and told they were on an FBI no-fly list.

The activists, Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams, work for a small pacifist magazine called War Times and say they have never been arrested, let alone have criminal records. Others who have filed complaints with the ACLU include a left-wing constitutional lawyer who has been strip-searched repeatedly when travelling through US airports, and a 71-year-old nun from Milwaukee who was prevented from flying to Washington to join an anti-government protest.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=430073

[antineocon1]

1. Of course this has to come from a european paper...

Where is the US press? Fuck the government.

[The Zanti Regent]

15. The US Whore Press has sold you out

Typical example:

Margaret Carlson, who became a solid Bush whore because Bush served her favorite dish (Lobster Ravioli) on his campaign plane.

Check this out in back issues of The Daily Howler http://www.dailyhowler.com/

[CWebster]

2. Just printed this out

They are robbing our liberty and rights under the guise of national security. We have to seriously get them out of power or it will only get worse.

[dArKeR]

3. This is too much! If Dem. candidates doesn't jump on this then they

have no morals and/or are really all just part of the Secret Government. And what is the IRS doing? How many people are the FBI placing illegal items into the passengers luggage so that they can arrested?

I can't believe this story! If true Bush should be Impeached!

Lost In Translation
Edmonds says that the supervisor, in an effort to slow her down, went so far as to erase completed translations from her FBI computer after she'd left work for the day.

“The next day I would come to work, turn on my computer and the work would be gone. The translation would be gone,” she says. “Then I had to start all over again and retranslate the same document. And I went to my supervisor and he said, ‘Consider it a lesson and don't talk about it to anybody else and don't mention it.’”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml

FBI official charged with obstruction after concealing Ruby Ridge report
(Harp was in on this too and now he heads the anthrax cover-up.)
http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/22/ruby.ridge.final/

Busting the FBI
The Judi Bari verdict bares government lies and deceit
They found that six agents of the FBI and the Oakland police twisted a murder attempt against Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, two Earth First! activists working to reform logging practices
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/31/news-kuipers.php

Fighting an FBI frame-up
An Earth First! member relates how she and Darryl Cherney were framed by the FBI for a car bombing that nearly killed them. The frame-up was one of a long series of events in the FBI's campaign against the environmental movement. It has been four years since Darryl Cherney and I were nearly killed in a 1990 car-bomb assassination attempt, then arrested for possession of the bomb
http://www.wildrockies.org/cove/news/62194nw.html

Did The FBI Destroy Evidence?
The FBI and prosecutors ordered the destruction in 1999 of evidence from a bank robbery they once suspected linked Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to white supremacists who were threatening before McVeigh's bombing to attack the government, documents show.

The evidence included a surveillance videotape of a bank robbery by some of the supremacists that occurred in Ohio five months before the bombing. The FBI lab compared the tape to pictures of McVeigh, but concluded a match was "inconclusive," internal memos show.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/national/main540266.shtml


FBI Whistleblower Harassed
Special agent John Roberts says he was threatened, intimidated and humiliated for exposing what he said has become a pattern of misconduct at the highest levels of the FBI and that has gone unpunished.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/25/60minutes/main530750.shtml



FBI Meeting Called A Sham
A Justice Department investigation into a 1997 retirement dinner for former FBI Deputy Director Larry A. Potts said senior bureau executives used a sham conference at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Va., to justify using taxpayer funds for cross-country travel to Washington.
http://www.americansovereign.com/newsarchive/fbisham.htm



Phone records: Link from state official to FBI
Deputy AG reportedly sought federal aid to find missing Democrats
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/politics/state/stories/061103dntexdps.aca2d.html


The FBI is conducting an exhaustive review of each of its thousands of human intelligence sources to ensure the information they provide is accurate and that their relationships with FBI handlers are proper.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/28/national/main551346.shtml

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Earth Threatened, Wen Ho Lee Released
http://unquietmind.com/wenholee.html

Wen Ho Lee is Just one more example of FBI Misdirection. Many elements of the case are similar to Unabomber Charade. Together they are textbook examples of Government tactics on Black Ops.
http://www.unabombers.com/z23.htm

http://www.wenholee.org/

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FBI Agent, Turner, blew whistle on Ground Zero, 911, theft.
She says she immediately reported the problem to a federal prosecutor, then to her supervisor, and waited for him to act.
Two weeks later, after nothing apparently had been done, Turner seized the globe, bagged it as evidence and took it to Justice Department officials in Washington.
(She's being fired.)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907004.asp?0cv=CB10

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Poll: 4 out of 10 Americans don't trust FBI
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-05-22-mcveigh-pollstory.htm

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With defense lawyers stepping up challenges to genetic evidence, the Justice Department inspector general is examining the FBI lab unit that analyzes DNA in hundreds of cases a year after a technician was caught failing to follow proper procedure.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/11/tech/main543575.shtml

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FBI says it withheld evidence from McVeigh lawyers
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/05/10/mcveigh.evidence.02/

Nichols: FBI Withheld On Purpose
A lawyer for Terry Nichols, who was convicted as Timothy McVeigh's assistant in the Oklahoma City bombing, claimed the FBI may have intentionally withheld documents from defense lawyers and misled federal prosecutors.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/05/14/national/main291113.shtml



http://darker0darker.tripod.com/

[On the Road]

4. I Just Wrote the Dean Campaign

Sent the following email:

Friendly suggestion from a two-time contributor:

US anti-war activists hit by secret airport ban

After more than a year of complaints by some US anti-war activists that they were being unfairly targeted by airport security, Washington has admitted the existence of a list, possibly hundreds or even thousands of names long, of people it deems worthy of special scrutiny at airports. (snip)

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=430073

I think Dr. Dean can help to blow the whistle on this illegal practice which was directed against Republicans as well as Democrats.

It can put the Bush administration on the defensive if handled in the right way. The administration looks bad when charged with deception. Publicizing this practice can weaken Bush and help insure Dean's election.

Thanks for your consideration.

[Robbien]

5. I know we don't use real names here, but to vote on the MoveOn

primary, didn't we have to use real names? Are we now on this list?

[Pallas180]

6. It's a violation of constitutional right of freedom of speech, freedom to

dissent.

Ashcroft - Congress should impeach him for ignoring the rights
of Americans under the Constitution.

Would help if you call or fax your senator and congressmen with
that suggestion.

[Ouabache]

8. My real name in the MOVE-ON primary wasn't real

I think they took the vote.

[Robbien]

9. If I knew about this list then, mine would not have been real either

Sneaky SOB's

[Cha]

7. They are sooooooooooo Scared of the Truth.

I hope everyone can see why they didn't bother to stop 9/11. It gives them a perfect cover for their dirty acts against our Country. :kick:

[CheshireCat]

10. Screw them.

I don't care that they have my name. They already had it, I'm sure.

Our peace rallies and vigils are always videotaped by one or more person.. Monday, we protested at a Cheney fundraiser. We were videotaped by at least four different people that I saw. We were videotaped by the Secret Service.

My advice - Smile for the camera!

Don't let them make you afraid. That is what they want to do.

[mbperrin]

13. That's right! Smile!

I collected an FBI file while working for the Sherry Smith Socialist Worker Party run for governor of Texas in the mid 70s. I've been audited by the IRS more times than I'd care to mention, had mysterious complaints to my boss at work, and a whole raft of other crap.

Fuck them! They can be sneaky; I'm going to be open. And if they ask me for "ze papers" and I don't have them, look for me.

[jonnyblitz]

23. I agree. I will even mail them my name if they want it..

I am not going to live in fear because they might get it.

[qanda]

11. This is such a shame...

I will be writing my representatives to tell them how displeased I am about the abuses going on in our government right now.

[Merlin]

12. This is BIG -- IF it is true

This is Nixonian and will eventually provoke an enormously powerful public reaction if it can be proven to the degree that the US media is forced to carry it.

It is identical to what went on during the Nixon era.

[screembloodymurder]

21. Sorry to burst your bubble, but

If you think the public will get excited about this, you're living in a dream world. They view protestors as terrorists just like they've been told to do.

[study_war_no_more]

26. Michael G Kelly - Minneapolis Minnesota

Advocates tar and feathering of Bush & Co.
Spell it write, asswipes.

[izzie]

14. I hope they sue the whole group. Youwould think It was Cromwell

running the gov.

[Gman]

16. Just one more item from the 2000 RIght Wing overthrow of the US govt

fair elections in 2004? HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They'll NEVER let that happen. Forget Dean, Kucinich, Kerry, forget them all because the 2000 right wing revolution will not voluntarily allow it...

We're all acting like we're going to beat the FI (fucking idiot) at the polls next year. Everyone wants to think we're not living under a revolutionary right wing goverment. Free elections are not held in countries that have been overthrown.

Sorry, but I'm in a pissy mood right now since I read the thread in GD about somebody's credentials being revoked at a conference of elections administrators. The revoked credentials belonged to someone advocating a paper trail of ballots.

[Mari333]

17. and here is how you find out if YOU are on it

http://www.tsa.gov/public/display?theme=43&content=93




SUE SUE SUE AND JAIL THE MOTHERF*CKERS.


I Boycott the Airlines. Period.

[PaDUer]

20. KICK

Has anyone written to this place as yet to see if you're on the do not fly list???

[paulthompson]

18. This is old news

This was first reported last year. I have an entry about it already in my 9/11 Timeline:

March 2002: Beginning at least by this time, some political activists begin noticing they are being subjected to extra surveillance and security checks when flying in the US. Numerous government agencies later admit they are using a "no fly" list that bans certain people from flying. The government says about 1,000 names are on the list. It is also admitted that there is a second list that subjects anyone on it to increased security every time they fly. A number of agencies, including the CIA, FBI, INS, and State Department, admit that they have added names to such lists, but no agency admits controlling the list. There are no guidelines to determine who gets on the lists and no procedures for getting off a list if someone is wrongfully on it. Airport security personnel note that the lists seem to be netting mostly priests, elderly nuns, Green Party campaign operatives, left-wing journalists, right-wing activists, and people affiliated with Arab or Arab-American groups. (San Francisco Chronicle, 9/27/02, Salon, 11/15/02)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/27/MN181034.DTL

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/11/15/no_fly/index_np.html

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The Independent is acting as if they just discovered the story. There seems to be a lot of forgetfulness of what's been reported these days. At least the Independent adds a few new details. But the story has been around a long time and not deemed important, unfortunately.

[Robbien]

19. Okay old news in liberal US press, now new news in foreign press

Here's hoping the next step means it gets into the mainstream alphabet soup press.

But it was new news to me today, so I shared.

[paulthompson]

22. covering the story

I'm all in favor of the Independent reporting on this. The more coverage, the better. I'm just pointing out that because it's already been reported in the US, it's less likely to catch fire as a big story. Only the SF Chronicle (cos it's a "local" story with lots of SF activists being arrested) and Salon (cos they're liberal). Sad.

[bluestateguy]

24. Here lies the problem...

While it's fine to have a "Do Not Fly List"--you don't wan't to allow an undocumented alien from Saudi Arabia on the plane, or somebody for whom their is a standing arrest warrant for a violent crime--the potential for abuse is tremendous. This is why the FBI and CIA lost many of the powers and privilleges of their agencies in the 1970's, They abused them. Much like an elementary school child who abuses his privillges, they get taken away to teach him a lesson. If people are on that list, they ought to have the right to due process of law to get off that list. And placing people on the list because of political activites is just downright Nixonian. How would conseravtives feel if President Hillary Rodham Clinton demanded all anti-abortion activists, or Campus Crusade for Christ activists be put on the list?

[bluestateguy]

25. Another question

Has Skinner been put on the list?

[goforit]

27. OMG!!!........So much for our Democracy..

It's time to bear down folks!!!

[ChoralScholar]

28. I've said it a hundred times.....

If we don't get Shrub out of office, 5 years from now, we will be wishing that a president getting head in the White House was the worst of our problems.

ChoralScholar