Editing No Fly List (section)

====Notable cases====
False positives and abuses that have been in the news include:
* Numerous children (including many under the age of five, and some under the age of one) have generated false positives.<ref>{{cite news |first=Leslie (Associated Press) |last=Miller |title='No-fly list' grounds some unusual young suspects |url=https://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/no_fly_list_grounds_some_unusual_young_suspects/ |work=[[Boston Globe]] |date=August 15, 2005 |access-date=May 24, 2008 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305023816/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/no_fly_list_grounds_some_unusual_young_suspects/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/business/30road.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |title=ON THE ROAD; Not Too Small to Appear On a Big No-Fly Watch List |last=Sharkey |first=Joe |date=September 30, 2008 |work=The New York Times |page=5 |access-date=October 10, 2008 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101005112/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/business/30road.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Airline pulls 18 month old girl off plane in 'no-fly' alert |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9259324/Airline-pulls-18-month-old-girl-off-plane-in-no-fly-alert.html |access-date=May 11, 2012 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=May 11, 2012 |location=London |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006171106/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9259324/Airline-pulls-18-month-old-girl-off-plane-in-no-fly-alert.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Daniel Brown, a [[United States Marine Corps]] reservist returning from [[Iraq]], was prevented from boarding a flight home in April 2006 because his name matched one on the No Fly List.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12284855 |title='No-fly' list delays Marine's Iraq homecoming |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[NBC News]] |date=April 12, 2006 |access-date=2025-03-26 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923103855/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12284855 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* David Fathi, an attorney for the ACLU of Iranian descent and a plaintiff in an [[#Lawsuits|ACLU lawsuit]], has been arrested and detained because his name was on the No Fly List.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/06/no.fly.lawsuit/ |title=ACLU sues U.S. over 'no-fly' list |publisher=CNN |date=April 6, 2004 |access-date=August 15, 2007 |archive-date=September 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914053259/http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/06/no.fly.lawsuit/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Asif Iqbal, a management consultant and legal resident of the United States born in [[Pakistan]], plans to sue the U.S. government because he is regularly detained when he tries to fly. He has the [[Asif Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee 87)|same name]] as a former [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo detainee]].<ref name=Wired030408>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58386,00.html |title=Due Process Vanishes in Thin Air |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=April 8, 2003 |access-date=March 10, 2017 |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517103135/http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58386,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Nyclu040329>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyclu.org/tsa_iqbal_pr_032904.html |title=NYCLU Calls For Relief For New York Man In Mistaken Identity "No Fly" Dilemma |publisher=[[New York Civil Liberties Union]] |date=March 29, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310232935/http://www.nyclu.org/tsa_iqbal_pr_032904.html |archive-date=March 10, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Iqbal's work requires a lot of travel, and, even though the Guantanamo detainee has been released, his name remains on the No Fly List, and Iqbal the software consultant experiences frequent, unpredictable delays and missed flights.<ref name=AsianWeek04009>{{cite news |url=http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=8e4fa02fabf80a4f1bb83b979bcec3f3 |title=Pakistani American Repeatedly Detained: Mistaken identity confuses security authorities |work=[[Asian Week]] |date=April 9, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021044514/http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=8e4fa02fabf80a4f1bb83b979bcec3f3 |archive-date=October 21, 2006 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He is pushing for a photo ID and birthdate matching system, in addition to the current system of checking names.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_38_38/ai_91566311 |title=Profiled: for one New York businessman, sharing his name with a terrorist has been a yearlong nightmare |work=[[National Catholic Reporter]] |date=September 6, 2002 |access-date=December 17, 2006 |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108110921/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_38_38/ai_91566311 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Robert J. Johnson, a surgeon and a former lieutenant colonel in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]], was told in 2006 that he was on the list, although he had had no problem in flying the month before. Johnson was running as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] against U.S. Representative [[John M. McHugh|John McHugh]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. Johnson wondered whether he was on the list because of his opposition to the [[Iraq War]]. He stated, "This could just be a government screw-up, but I don't know, and they won't tell me."<ref>{{cite news |first=Joe |last=LoTemplio |title=Congressional candidate put on no-fly list |url=http://archive.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2006/02_2006/022320061.htm |publisher=[[PressRepublican.com]] |date=February 22, 2006 |access-date=December 16, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060709182209/http://archive.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2006/02_2006/022320061.htm |archive-date=July 9, 2006 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Later, a ''[[60 Minutes]]'' report brought together 12 men named Robert Johnson, all of whom had experienced problems in airports with being pulled aside and interrogated. The report suggested that the individual whose name was intended to be on the list was most likely the Robert Johnson who had been convicted of plotting to bomb a movie theater and a Hindu temple in [[Toronto]].<ref name="Kroft2006" />
* In August 2004, Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] told a [[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary Committee]] discussing the No Fly List that he had appeared on the list and had been repeatedly delayed at airports.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} He said it had taken him three weeks of appeals directly to [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security|Homeland Security Secretary]] [[Tom Ridge]] to have him removed from the list. Kennedy said he was eventually told that the name "T Kennedy" was added to the list because it was once used as an alias of a suspected terrorist. There are an estimated {{formatnum:7000}} American men whose legal names correspond to "T Kennedy". (Senator Kennedy, whose first name was Edward and for whom "Ted" was only a nickname, would not have been one of them.) Recognizing that as a U.S. Senator he was in a privileged position of being able to contact Ridge, Kennedy said of "ordinary citizens": "How are they going to be able to get to be treated fairly and not have their rights abused?"<ref>{{cite news |first=Thomas C |last=Greene |title=Database snafu puts US Senator on terror watch list |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/senator_on_terror_watch/ |work=[[The Register]] |date=August 19, 2004 |access-date=December 16, 2006 |archive-date=February 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224031458/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/senator_on_terror_watch/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Former mayor of New York City [[Rudy Giuliani]] pointed to this incident as an example of the necessity to "rethink aviation security" in an essay on [[homeland security]] published while he was seeking the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential election.<ref>{{cite news |first=Rudolph W. |last=Giuliani |url=http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_homeland_security.html |title=The Resilient Society. A blueprint for homeland security |work=[[City Journal (New York)|City Journal]] |date=Winter 2008 |volume=18 |issue=1 |access-date=January 17, 2008 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174022/http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_homeland_security.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The late U.S. Representative, former [[Freedom Rider]], and former Chairman of [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]], [[John Lewis]], was stopped many times in his life.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ted |last=Barrett |title=Kennedy has company on airline watch list |url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/lewis.watchlist/index.html |work=[[CNN Politics]] |date=August 20, 2004 |access-date=December 16, 2006 |archive-date=September 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915010016/http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/lewis.watchlist/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Canadian journalist Patrick Martin has been frequently interrogated while traveling, because of a suspicious individual, believed to be a former [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] bombmaker, with the same name.<ref>{{cite news |first=Margaret |last=Wente |title=Are you feeling safer now? |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070619.wxcowent19/BNStory/National/ |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=June 19, 2007 |access-date=June 21, 2007 |location=Toronto |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630193824/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070619.wxcowent19/BNStory/National/ |archive-date=June 30, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ira-team-who-planned-terror-blitz-on-capital-given-35-years-1248661.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ira-team-who-planned-terror-blitz-on-capital-given-35-years-1248661.html |archive-date=June 21, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=IRA team who planned terror blitz on capital given 35 years |first1=Michael |last1=Streeter |first2=Steve |last2=Boggan |date=July 2, 1997 |work=The Independent}}</ref>
* [[Walter F. Murphy]], McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at [[Princeton University|Princeton]], reported that the following exchange took place at [[Newark International Airport|Newark]] on 1 March 2007, where he was denied a boarding pass "because I [Murphy] was on the Terrorist Watch list." The airline employee asked, "Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that." Replied Murphy, "I explained that I had not so marched but had, in September 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the constitution." To which the airline employee responded, "That'll do it."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html |work=The Guardian |location=London |title=Fascist America, in 10 easy steps |first=Naomi |last=Wolf |date=April 24, 2007 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419124807/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[David Nelson (actor)|David Nelson]], the actor best known for his role on ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'', is among various persons named David Nelson who have been stopped at airports because their name apparently appears on the list.<ref name="Sharkey2006"/><ref>{{cite news |first=Doug |last=Moe |title='no-fly List' Snares Average Joes |url=http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/tct/2006/10/07/0610070164.php |work=[[The Capital Times]] (Madison.com) |page=A2 |date=October 7, 2006 |access-date=December 16, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103102411/http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=%2Ftct%2F2006%2F10%2F07%2F0610070164.php |archive-date=November 3, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Jesselyn Radack]], a former [[United States Department of Justice]] ethics adviser who argued that [[John Walker Lindh]] was entitled to an attorney, was placed on the No Fly List as part of what she<ref>{{cite news |first=Jesselyn |last=Radack |author-link=Jesselyn Radack |title=When whistle-blowers suffer: Jesselyn Radack |url=http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/04/when_whistle-blowers_suffer_je.html |work=[[The Plain Dealer]] |date=April 30, 2010 |access-date=August 19, 2010 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081435/http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/04/when_whistle-blowers_suffer_je.html |url-status=live }}</ref> believes to be a reprisal for her whistle-blowing.
* In September 2004, former pop singer [[Cat Stevens]] (who converted to Islam and changed his name to "Yusuf Islam" in 1978) was denied entry into the U.S. after his name was found on the list.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cat Stevens 'In the Dark' Over No-Fly List |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/News/story?id=139607&page=1 |publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=October 1, 2004 |access-date=December 16, 2006 |archive-date=September 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909011915/https://abcnews.go.com/2020/News/story?id=139607&page=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In February 2006, U.S. Senator [[Ted Stevens]] stated in a [[U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation|committee]] hearing that his wife Catherine had been subjected to questioning at an airport as to whether she was Cat Stevens due to the similarity of their names.<ref name="Sharkey2006">{{cite news |first=Joe |last=Sharkey |author-link=Joe Sharkey |title=Jumping Through Hoops to Get Off the No-Fly List |url=http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/14road.html |work=On the road |date=February 14, 2006 |access-date=December 16, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210212712/http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/14road.html |archive-date=February 10, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1720&wit_id=3971 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301144738/http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1720&wit_id=3971 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 1, 2006 |title=The Testimony of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) |access-date=December 16, 2006 |date=February 9, 2006 |work=Committee Hearing: TSA's Secure Flight and Registered Traveler Programs |publisher=[[United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation]] }}</ref>
* U.S. Representative [[Don Young]], the third-most senior Republican in the House, was flagged in 2004 after he was mistaken for a "Donald Lee Young".<ref>{{cite news |first=Sara Kehaulani |last=Goo |title=Faulty 'No-Fly' System Detailed |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18735-2004Oct8.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |pages=A01 |date=October 9, 2004 |access-date=December 16, 2006 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804202649/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18735-2004Oct8.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Some members of the [[Federal Air Marshal Service]] have been denied boarding on flights that they were assigned to protect because their names matched those of persons on the No Fly List.<ref>{{cite news |first=Audrey |last=Hudson |title=Air marshals grounded in list mix-ups |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080430%2FNATION%2F946059998%2F1002 |work=The Washington Times |date=April 30, 2008 |access-date=May 1, 2008 |archive-date=May 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503035050/http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080430%2FNATION%2F946059998%2F1002 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In August 2008, [[CNN]] reported that an airline captain and retired [[brigadier general]] of the U.S. [[Air National Guard]] has had numerous encounters with security officials when attempting to pilot his own plane.<ref>{{cite news |last=Griffin |first=Drew |last2=Johnston |first2=Kathleen |date=August 19, 2008 |title=Airline captain, lawyer, child on terror 'watch list' |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tsa.watch.list/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517171709/https://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tsa.watch.list/index.html |archive-date=2021-05-17 |access-date=2024-10-25 |work=CNN |publisher=}}</ref>
* After frequently being detained for questioning at airport terminals, a [[Canadians|Canadian]] businessman changed his name to avoid being delayed every time he took a flight.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-man-changes-name-to-dodge-relentless-airport-screening-1.709967 |publisher=CBC News |title=Quebec man changes name to dodge relentless airport screening |date=September 11, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917202919/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-man-changes-name-to-dodge-relentless-airport-screening-1.709967 |archive-date=September 17, 2008}}</ref>
* In October 2008, the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that [[Maryland State Police]] classified 53 nonviolent political activists as terrorists, and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases, with labels indicating that they were terror suspects. The protest groups were also entered as terrorist organizations. During a hearing, it was revealed that these individuals and organizations had been placed in the databases because of a surveillance operation that targeted opponents of the [[death penalty]] and the [[Iraq War]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703245.html?sid=ST2008100703347&s_pos= |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=Md. Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists |first=Lisa |last=Rein |date=October 8, 2008 |access-date=November 9, 2010 |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605003640/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703245.html?sid=ST2008100703347&s_pos= |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In April 2009, TSA refused to allow an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico to cross U.S. airspace because it was carrying Colombian journalist [[Hernando Calvo Ospina]]. Air France did not send the passenger manifest to the U.S. authorities; they did however send it to Mexico who forwarded it to the U.S.<ref name=airfrance>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5217186/US-authorites-divert-Air-France-flight-carrying-no-fly-journalist-to-Mexico.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |title=US authorites (sic) divert Air France flight carrying 'no-fly' journalist to Mexico |first=Henry |last=Samuel |date=April 24, 2009 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623231016/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5217186/US-authorites-divert-Air-France-flight-carrying-no-fly-journalist-to-Mexico.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* On August 19, 2009, Air France flight AF-438 was not allowed to cross into U.S. airspace because of the presence on board of one Paul-Emile Dupret, a human rights activist and civil servant at the European Parliament.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/reise/usa-ueberflugsrechte-der-gesperrte-himmel-1.172848 |title=USA: Überflugsrechte: Der gesperrte Himmel |last=Blechschmidt |first=Peter |newspaper=sueddeutsche.de |language=de |issn=0174-4917 |access-date=April 13, 2016 |archive-date=May 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524085951/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/reise/usa-ueberflugsrechte-der-gesperrte-himmel-1.172848 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Bollywood]] actor [[Shah Rukh Khan]] was held for extensive questioning by U.S. Immigration and Customs officials in August 2009 because, as he reported, "his name came up on a computer alert list." Customs officials claimed that he "was questioned as part of a routine process that took 66 minutes." Khan was visiting the United States to promote his film ''[[My Name Is Khan]]'', which concerns [[racial profiling]] of Muslims in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan detained at US airport |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6040296/Bollywood-star-Shah-Rukh-Khan-detained-at-US-airport.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821023328/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6040296/Bollywood-star-Shah-Rukh-Khan-detained-at-US-airport.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 21, 2009 |access-date=September 24, 2010 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=August 17, 2009 |location=London}}</ref>
* In June 2010, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Yahya Wehelie, a 26-year-old [[Muslim American]] man, was being prevented from returning to the United States, and was stranded in [[Cairo]]. Despite Wehelie's offer to FBI agents to allow them to accompany him on the plane, while shackled, he was not permitted to fly. The [[ACLU]] has argued that this constitutes [[Exile|banishment]].<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/world/middleeast/16yemen.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1276661857-A288pf2HePxHJ24b2lxLww |work=The New York Times |location=New York |title=American Man in Limbo on No-Fly List |first=Scott |last=Shane |date=June 15, 2010 |access-date=June 16, 2010 |archive-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920172010/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/world/middleeast/16yemen.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1276661857-A288pf2HePxHJ24b2lxLww |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 2010, Wehelie was permitted to fly to New York under a federal waiver.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/world/19nofly.html?referer=&_r=0 |work=The New York Times |location=New York |title=Virginia Man Flies Home on Waiver |date=July 18, 2010 |access-date=December 7, 2015}}</ref>
* A U.S. citizen, stranded in [[Colombia]] after being placed on the No Fly List as a result of having [[study abroad|studied]] in [[Yemen]], sought to re-enter the U.S. through [[Mexico]] but was returned to Colombia by Mexican authorities.<ref name="nyt" />
* Michael Migliore, a 23-year-old Muslim convert and dual citizen of the [[United States]] and [[Italy]], was detained in the [[United Kingdom]] after traveling there from the U.S. by train and then cruise ship because he was not permitted to fly. He said that he believes he was placed on the no-fly list because he refused to answer questions about a [[2010 Portland car bomb plot]] without his lawyer present.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/09/oregon-muslim-on-us-no-fly-list-held-after-sailing-to-britain/1?csp=34news |work=[[USA Today]] |date=September 12, 2011 |title=Oregon Muslim on U.S. no-fly list held after sailing to Britain |first=Michael |last=Winter |access-date=September 13, 2011 |archive-date=August 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824214234/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/09/oregon-muslim-on-us-no-fly-list-held-after-sailing-to-britain/1?csp=34news |url-status=live }}</ref>  He was released eight or ten hours later, but authorities confiscated his electronic media items, including a cell phone and media player.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-us-citizen-to-italy-after-detention-in-england-2011sep12-story.html |title=US citizen to Italy after detention in England |first=Matthew |last=Barakat |date=September 12, 2011 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=November 18, 2021 |archive-date=November 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118151510/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-us-citizen-to-italy-after-detention-in-england-2011sep12-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old Muslim and United States Marine Veteran, found himself on the No Fly List in April 2010 while attempting to board a plane out of Midway Airport. He was interrogated by the TSA, FBI and Chicago Police at the airport and was told they had no clue why he was on the No Fly List. Once he arrived at home that day two other FBI agents came to his home and used a Do Not Fly question-and-answer sheet to question him.  They informed him they had no idea why he was on the No Fly List. In June 2010, those same two FBI agents summoned Mashal to a local hotel and invited him to a private room. They then told him that he was in no trouble and the reason he ended up on the No Fly List was because of possibly sending emails to an American imam they may have been monitoring. They then informed him that if he would go undercover at various local mosques, they could get him off the No Fly List immediately and he would be compensated for such actions. Mashal refused to answer any additional questions without a lawyer present and was told to leave the hotel. Mashal then contacted the ACLU and is now being represented in a class-action lawsuit filed against the TSA, FBI and DHS concerning the legality of the No Fly List and how people end up on it. Mashal feels as if he was blackmailed into becoming an informant by being placed on the No Fly List. Mashal has since appeared on ABC, NBC, PBS and Al Jazeera concerning his inclusion on the No Fly List. He has also written a book about his experience titled "No Spy No Fly."<ref>{{cite news |title=Veteran Abe Mashal On No-Fly List For Reported Emails To Cleric About Parenting |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/21/veteran-abe-mashal-on-no-_n_838478.html |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=March 29, 2012 |first=Will |last=Guzzardi |date=March 21, 2011 |archive-date=February 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211051929/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/21/veteran-abe-mashal-on-no-_n_838478.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In November 2002 ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' reported that the No-Fly program seemed "to be netting mostly priests, elderly nuns, Green Party campaign operatives, left-wing journalists, right-wing activists and people affiliated with Arab or Arab-American groups." Art dealer Doug Stuber, who ran Ralph Nader's Green Party presidential campaign in North Carolina in 2000, was prevented from flying to Europe on business in October 2002. He was repeatedly pulled out of line, held for questioning until his flight left, then told falsely he could take a later flight or depart from a different airport. [[Barbara Olshansky]], then Assistant Legal Director for the [[Center for Constitutional Rights]], noted that she and several of her colleagues received special attention on numerous occasions. On at least one occasion, she was ordered to pull her trousers down in view of other passengers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lindorff |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Lindorff |title=Grounded: A federal agency confirms that it maintains an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people |work=Salon |date=November 15, 2002 |url=http://www.salon.com/2002/11/15/no_fly/ |access-date=February 1, 2014 |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030184740/https://www.salon.com/2002/11/15/no_fly/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It is not clear why Stuber was targeted. He was initially pulled aside after loudly declaring to a fellow passenger, "George Bush is as dumb as a rock." He was on the list for over two years but was later allowed to fly.<ref>{{cite web |last=Stuber |first=Doug |title=Dougstuber's Blog: Stuber V. Crawley and Stanley 1 |date=November 7, 2011 |url=http://dougstuber.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/stuber-v-crawly-and-stanley-1/ |access-date=February 1, 2014 |archive-date=February 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223075542/http://dougstuber.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/stuber-v-crawly-and-stanley-1/ |url-status=live }}</ref>