I read somewhere that the no-fly list is so widely distributed that currently known terrorists are not actually placed on that list as this would leak information about who the US considers a terrorist to too wide an audience.
Obviously I have no way to validate that story, but if true it would cement the story about that list being an utterly useless farce.
Perhaps the whole set of noflys are a cover so that when someone is harassed or tortured by the govt, that doesn't leak any info about who is actually a terrorist.
Obviously I have no way to validate that story, but if true it would cement the story about that list being an utterly useless farce.