Wow -- someone has finally won a court order that she should be able to find out why she was put on the Transportation Security Administration's no-fly list.
What happened to Ibrahim is a carbon copy of what happened to yours truly in August, 2002 at San Francisco Airport, except we didn't get the handcuffs. Guess that was because we are white.
Back in 2005, a judge of the Ninth Circuit declined to order the government to tell us why we were on the list, but apparently the documented escalation of the list to one million names and its chronic errors have moved judges to dig deeper. I imagine the government will appeal.
The TSA may have some reason to keep its determinations secret to preserve "security." It undoubtedly needs to keep its procedures secret to hide its incompetence.
Good luck to Ms. Ibrahim as her case moves forward.