So we have several sources of historical evidence that U.S. citizens have repeatedly been placed on FBI lists, with the intent of using that information to round them up during a national emergency. And we have evidence that the information used to classify people as dangerous was “inherently unreliable.”
But we also have one courageous attorney general, even in a time of war, willing to call such a system “a mistake,” as well as “impractical, unwise, and dangerous,” and to put a stop to it.
It should give all of us who have been targeted for special airport screening, based on a government “no-fly” list with no known criteria and no way of challenging our apparent “dangerous” designations, a reason to be concerned.
Yes, we should be very concerned.
