The Homeland Hack

This is my latest look at the vastly expanded use of terrorism watch-lists and its consequences. This piece examines the plight of a young man named in a California terrorism case, where a young American of Pakistani origin was convicted of attending a terrorist training camp. The man, Hamid Hayat, named several other young men from the small agricultural community of Lodi as having attended similar camps. One of them, Jaber Ismail, is currently in Pakistan with his father, and has been told that they are both on a federal "no-fly" list and will not be allowed to return home unless Jaber undergoes a polygraph test.
Hayat was convicted solely on the basis of his own confession. Something about this case smells fishy to me and I'll be writing more about it in the future.