Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A former Stanford University student became the first person to successfully challenge placement on a government’s no-fly list, Wired.com reports.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Thursday that an FBI agent “erroneously nominated” Rahinah Ibrahim to the list in 2004. The agent, Michael Kelly, “checked the wrong boxes, filling out the form exactly the opposite way from the instructions on the form.”
The Malaysian woman discovered she was on the no-fly list in December 2005 when she was detained and handcuffed while trying to travel to Hawaii to present a paper on affordable housing.
She sued, and despite the mistakes, federal authorities challenged her in court.
