{"id":22862,"date":"2015-08-24T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22862"},"modified":"2015-08-24T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:34:02","slug":"precrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22862","title":{"rendered":"Precrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/aug\/10\/us-no-fly-list-predictive-assessments\">In a little-noticed filing<\/a> before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping US and other citizens from travelling on airplanes is a matter of \u201cpredictive assessments about potential threats\u201d, the government asserted in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy its very nature, identifying individuals who \u2018may be a threat to civil aviation or national security\u2019 is a predictive judgment intended to prevent future acts of terrorism in an uncertain context,\u201d Justice Department officials Benjamin C Mizer and Anthony J Coppolino told the court on 28 May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudgments concerning such potential threats to aviation and national security call upon the unique prerogatives of the Executive in assessing such threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is believed to be the government\u2019s most direct acknowledgement to date that people are not allowed to fly because of what the government believes they might do and not what they have already done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping US and other citizens from travelling on airplanes is a matter of \u201cpredictive assessments about potential threats\u201d, the government asserted in May. \u201cBy its very nature, identifying individuals who \u2018may be a threat to civil aviation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22863,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions\/22863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}