re: #7 EPR-radar

The US legal system is an adversarial system, and a bedrock assumption is made that both sides have access to the facts and have an opportunity to make their respective cases before a suitable judge/jury.

When these assumptions are made incorrect by over-broad application of official secrecy, there is simply no check at all on abuses by law enforcement and prosecutors. IMO, the US legal system is completely incapable of functioning under such circumstances.

good point

there’s no reason to keep it secret from people if they are put on the no-fly list - it might even help by discouraging them from even trying

and if any person who found themselves on the list thought they didn’t deserve it, they could dispute it and get themselves taken off before finding themselves first confronted with it just at the time they wanted to make a plane trip