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Well, the ACLU has already filed lawsuits about citizens on the no fly list and won... 8 years ago. Seems like not much has changed https://www.aclu.org/press-

• tyingq 6y ago
  Oh, yeah...appears Abe Mashal had a pretty good backstory too...also a citizen, and happened to be a former US Marine: https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/im-former-marine-who-was-no-fly-list-4-years-and-i/ https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-p... I hadn't seen his story before, the ones I had seen were residents. Supposedly, there aren't very many citizens on the list: "According to leaked documents published by The Intercept, there were more than 47,000 people on the No Fly List as of August 2013, including 800 Americans." [1] Chebli's story does include the additional wrinkle of the recruitment, harassment, threats, etc, and thus first amendment violation petitions for relief. [1] https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/first-government-officially-tells-aclu-clients-their-no-fly-list-status?redirect=national-security/first-government-officially-tells-aclu-clients-their-no-fly-list-status https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/first-government-officia...