Individual FBI agents can be sued for blackmailing potential informants with no-fly list threats
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3PZDH)
It's been three years since the filing of a suit against the FBI after agents put several Muslims on the No Fly list to retaliate against their refusal to be conscripted as a confidential informants spying on other Muslims; the FBI's illegal retaliation cost their victims their jobs, subjected them to harassment, and cut them off from visits to family overseas. (more")