The SF Chronicle reports that a federal judge in San Francisco has “indignantly rejected” the Obama administration’s attempt to use secret evidence to thwart the efforts of a former Stanford student to understand why she’s apparently on a secret “no-fly” list. The government must stop its “persistent and stubborn refusal” to follow the law, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said this week.
Rahinah Ibrahim’s name on the confidential no-fly list has barred her and one of her four children from returning to the United States for nearly eight years. She was a Stanford graduate student in January 2005 when she was first stopped at San Francisco International Airport and prevented from boarding a flight to her native Malaysia.
She was arrested and jailed briefly by San Francisco police but was allowed to take the flight the next day, with her 14-year-old daughter. When Ibrahim tried to return two months later, however, she was again stopped and told she was subject to arrest. The U.S. Consulate later said her student visa had been revoked under a terrorism law.
Secret no-fly evidence rejected by judge.
(SF Gate via @milesobrien)