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

[okaawhatever]

51. This article is pure bullcrap. The same "author" wrote a story about this trial five days ago and

you wouldn't even think it was the same event. I don't know if he rewrote the story and added the lies and hyperbole for a direct paycheck, or to get added circulation by having a bunch of foreign papers pick up the "new, improved, anti-American, anti-Obama" story. It smacks of "sponsored content" where someone paid him to make this story a hit piece about Obama. it's a disgrace and "reporters" like him should not be granted the protection of freedom of the press if the content of his stories are for sale.

Old Headline:
FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List

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

Old Explanation:
In this version, she isn't wheelchair bound, she isn't a "scholar", he admits she was held for only two hours, but of course fails to mention she took the next flight (which was the next day). How can one be on a no-fly list for seven years if she flew the next day? He never tells the whole truth about the trip. She was returning to her home in Malaysia for two months, but had scheduled a stop over in Hawaii where she was presenting a paper on affordable housing. Oddly, her partner on the paper was a student at the military naval college. Why did he write that she was denied her pain medication until 2005?

"The government contested a former Stanford University student’s assertion that she was wrongly placed on a no-fly list for seven years in court despite knowing an FBI official put her on the list by mistake because he checked the “wrong boxes” on a form, a federal judge wrote today."

"The judge issued a brief ruling last month declaring that the Malaysian woman was a victim of a bureaucratic “mistake.” The judge’s full opinion was released today."

"Ibrahim’s saga began in December 2005 when she was a visiting doctoral student in architecture and design from Malaysia. On her way to Kona, Hawaii to present a paper on affordable housing, Ibrahim was told she was on a watch list, detained, handcuffed and questioned for two hours at San Francisco International Airport."

SNIP

"She sued and federal authorities fought her all the way."

New Explanation:

"After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii: FBI human error."

"What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials claimed repeatedly that disclosing the reason Ibrahim was detained, or even acknowledging that she’d been placed on a watch list, would cause serious damage to the U.S. national security. Again and again they asserted the so-called “state secrets privilege” to block the 48-year-old woman’s lawsuit, which sought only to clear her name."

SNIP

"Ibrahim was a Stanford University doctoral student in architecture and design from Malaysia and was headed to Hawaii to give a paper on affordable housing. Wheelchair-bound after just having a hysterectomy, she was handcuffed, detained for hours at San Francisco International Airport and denied her pain medication until paramedics arrived in 2005. She was eventually released and allowed to fly to her home country of Malaysia."
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According to Stanford Magazine:

DURING THAT DECEMBER nine years ago, those who knew Ibrahim, then a doctoral student in civil engineering, had one chief concern: her health. She had undergone an emergency hysterectomy 10 weeks prior to the trip. And though she had passed the worst of her recovery she remained unable to stand for long or go without medication for pain in her back and abdomen

Things began to unravel as soon as Ibrahim reached the ticket counter, where she sought wheelchair assistance.

Instead of heeding Ibrahim's request for help, the ticket agent called police. Ibrahim's name had flashed up on the federal no-fly list, a consolidated database of thousands of known or suspected terrorists created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Without explanation, Ibrahim was put in the back of a squad car, taken to a police substation, searched beneath her hijab, the traditional Muslim dress, and refused her pain medications until paramedics arrived to validate that she was authorized to take them, according to Ibrahim's account.

After more than two hours, a Homeland Security agent arrived with release papers and told Ibrahim that her name had been removed from the no-fly list. The next day, after enhanced security searches, she flew to Hawaii, unaware that the time spent there would be her final days in America.

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It's disappointing that some people are more concerned with promoting their own agenda than they are at promoting the truth. I would think those on DU would like for the readers to understand the events leading up to a trial, and not pushing hyperbole and lies on fellow readers. Obama didn't claim terrorism to cover up the mistake. Most of the trial wasn't even about Ms. Ibrahim but about the legal precedent for the case, the no-fly list, and so on. There are many unanswered questions about this case and the no-fly list in general, but this article does nothing to answer any of those things. The author is a liar and is pushing an agenda. Fall for it if it makes you feel good, but if you're interested in the truth and all the facts this isn't the article for you.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-list-bungle/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/?cid=co18444944