This shows just how far the Obama administration will go to cover up even the slightest of mistakes. Trampling on the constitution and the rights of individuals is just the work-a-day world of the 44th President of the United States.
From: Wired.com
What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials claimed repeatedly that disclosing the reason Ibrahim was detained, or even acknowledging that she’d been placed on a watch list, would cause serious damage to the U.S. national security. Again and again they asserted the so-called “state secrets privilege†to block the 48-year-old woman’s lawsuit, which sought only to clear her name.