How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error

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9. What the case shows is: improper use of an FBI form in 2004; subsequent improper

addition of her name to a federal database and propagation through a number of other federal databases; an arrest in 2005 by San Francisco police, based on information provided by a contractor (which was soon deemed improper and for which she received monetary settlement from San Francisco); an immediate promise to remove her name from the no-fly list; failure to remove her name from other databases, so that in 2005, she was improperly still in the SSSS database, and (although allowed to fly) was issued an SSSS boarding pass; revocation of her F-1 student visa by early 2005; after she filed suit in 2006, a review finding no reasonable grounds for suspicion against her; then further refusal in 2009 to issue a visa, probably because several old database records had never been corrected, and the law simply requires officials when conducting such reviews to examine existing records

When the case finally went to trial for five days in December, the government conceded the errors. One problem is that the data from the original seems to have been automatically exported to multiple databases, so that the corrections in 2004 and 2006 were inadequate