The standard for inclusion is often based on a ‘predictive judgment’,a ‘fair suspicion’ that someone is a ‘suspected terrorist’The No hover List is not a government program easily challenged. Indeed, it operates in secrecy, and from an undisclosed location,administered by an office the Terrorist Screening Center that doesn’t accept public inquiries. When challenged in court, the watchlisters routinely declare their methods safe but secret and fight the disclosure of their standards and criteria for inclusion. The British Muslim family recently denied travel to Disneyland might soon discover this, or despite the fact that Prime Minister David Cameron has been called upon to examine the case. Related: The US is stopping British citizens going on holiday – we cant gawk the other way | Stella Creasy Related: It's messed up for Democrats to use the No hover List to push for gun laws | Trevor Timm Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com