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The FBI Watchlist: What Happens When You're Wrongly Flagged? w/ Gadeir Abbas
Gadeir Abbas is the Deputy Litigation Director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), where he has spent years challenging the government’s watchlisting system and defending the constitutional rights of Americans. One of his major legal undertakings was representing Yonas Fikre in a Supreme Court case that resulted in a unanimous 9-0 ruling allowing a challenge to the federal No Fly List to move forward.
In today’s episode of CAIR On AIR, Gadeir joins me to explain how the FBI watchlist works, why innocent Americans can find themselves on secret government lists, and how these…
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