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January 25, 2006
Government pays to settle lawsuit over information about "no-fly" list
The FBI and the Transportation Security Administration agreed to pay the ACLU $200,000 to cover the ACLU's legal fees for a lawsuit brought by two San Francisco peace activists who were detained at a San Francisco airport after their names were listed on the "no-fly" list. The activists publish "The War Times," a nationally distrubuted newspaper critical of Bush.
The Associated Press reported that the activists and the ACLU had invoked FOIA to determine how people were placed on the no-fly list, and how they were taken off of it.
"The agencies at first balked at supplying any information to the ACLU. But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, after privately reviewing secret government data, said the government was making "frivolous claims" about why it could not.
Posted by Kathleen Miller at January 25, 2006 05:07 PM
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