The Robert Johnson meant to be on the No Fly List would seem to be the known alias of a 62-year-old black man who was convicted of plotting to bomb a Hindu temple and a movie theatre in Toronto.

In their efforts to prevent a repeat of the Sept. 11 tragedy, the U.S. government and the ...

In the months since the arrest of Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the man arrested for the Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound jet, the government's no-fly list has nearly doubled - from ...

The disclosures are also silent on how Americans can get their names off the list and whether the FBI tracks "no fly" list matches. The documents do confirm, however, that not only are the lists being ...

A federal "No Fly" list, intended to keep terrorists from boarding planes, is snaring peace activists at San Francisco International and other U. S. airports, triggering complaints that civil ...

Reporting from Washington — The federal government’s no-fly list has come under intense scrutiny from congressional leaders and President Obama after last week’s attempted bombing aboard a ...

The federal no-fly list and accompanying “selectee” list contain, in total, less than 16,000 names, the Department of Homeland Services reported in late 2008.

Prior to the airline hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration's "no-fly list" contained 11 names. Soon after the attacks, the Transportation Security Administration was ...

Greenwald's the Intercept reveals how government creates no-fly list Neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence" is required to place someone on it, apparently. By Elias Isquith.

The CIA did not seek Congress’s approval for the program or to kill a particular individual on the list. But once the covert drone program began, the agency kept Congress informed of those who ...