David S. Cloud reports: The Obama administration will announce Friday a new screening system for flights to the United States under which passengers who fit an intelligence profile of potential terrorists will be searched before boarding their planes, a senior administration official said. The procedures, which have been approved by President Obama, are aimed at…
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What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say
Orin Kerr comments on the reporting of the Ninth Circuit’s decision in the Al-Haramain case, gently pointing out the the New York Times and others in the media somewhat mischaracterized the ruling: The New York Times reports on Judge Walker’s new decision in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama with the following opening: A federal judge…
CIA given details of British Muslim students
Syma Mohammed and Robert Verkaik report: Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare. The disclosure has outraged Muslim groups and students who are not involved in extremism but have been targeted by police…
Proposed law would keep inmates from data
The UPI reports: The U.S. Social Security Administration plans to propose legislation to ban prisoners from access to data that could be used for identity theft, officials say. Most states have laws barring inmates in training or work programs from seeing Social Security numbers and other personal data, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star reports. But…