DHS Re-Launches Watchlist Help Site After 27B Crushed the Old One – UPDATED

I should add that the Magistrate’s R&R that EW highlighted has by percentages an excellent chance of being reversed, because by and large we have a cowed compliant judiciary ready to orgasm over any scent of state secrets and side with the government in every issue before any district or appellate federal court.

The Supreme Court already is batting 1000% in denying cert. to any single State Secrets case where a cert. brief has been made from both the 4th and D.C. Circuits. This ain’t gonna change.

I’d look for the 9th to reverse this depending on which panel gets it unless the District Court pisses on the R&R–and I guarantee you it will be appealed until the government gets the totalitarian milieu out of this case it thrives on.

I never could make your first link work though EW so I went to the paper and tried to find articles on State Secrets and the al-Haramain case. I either get redirected to a blank page by that link or 404′d–don’t know why. Other links work fine.

Besides all the Ryan Singel Wired Blog links that caught me up on the clusterfuck that is the TSA and it’s completely absurd million plus and growing terrorist watch lists that fuck up people trying to get to Poughkipsee or wherever the hell to see mom or Aunt Martha, I ran across thess site in the comments of one of the first Wired article that EW linked and I pass it on. If I’m in EPUville (par) where I live a lot. I’ll call attention to them some other time when it is somewhat (or not) appropriate.

Anyone interested in purported security fucking with your privacy and civil rights, (and it is now in a billion ways, which it always does with this admnistration and their lacky Congress and Senate should check out:

Check out

New TSA Website back online – Now Less Phishy

TSA has outsourced the TSA Traveler Identity Verification Program?

Slight Paranoia’s Old Site

Can TSA be trusted not to data discriminate?

What it meant is that the magistrate judge issued a recommendation that will be reviewed by the District Court pursuant to FRCP Rule 72:

Magistrate Judges Pretrial Orders Rule 72

What happens in these situations is that the magistrate issues an R&R–and this occurs in criminal cases as well although there it’s the FRCrP that govern–same deal though with the magistrates.

Magistrate issues an R&R and the district court either adopts it (most of the time in criminal cases and civil cases) or overrules or modifies it. Often if both parties agree, pretrial issues get out of the way when the magistrate reviews them either in civil or criminal cases.

This will context it for you I think.

From:

So You Wanna Be a Law Clerk

The greatest distinction is the type of opinion written by magistrate clerks. Under most circumstances, a magistrate clerk will draft what is called a Report and Recommendation (R&R) instead of an Opinion and Order. In short, a R&R is a fully reasoned and supported judicial opinion, with the holding written as a recommendation, i.e., “and therefore the undersigned recommends that the district judge Grant the Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss with prejudice.” In short, your draft opinion is written exactly as it would be written if you were a district court clerk drafting an Opinion & Order.

I think that’s what you were getting at LooHoo but maybe not.

We aren’t in quite the same boat, but we’re all in boats by now, eh? Rowing along together.

So Ashcroft says what we did was legal because it falls under the reservation that allows us to decide to torture in a case-by-case basis.

But then documents are classified because they deal with a particular case.

How convenient for Team Torture that oversight is stuck in a loop.

He suggested that everyone US and Canadian who stnad for individual rights and the rule of law should make a Hands (Or Fingers) Across North America – No Fingerprints Please!