.... Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama
administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General
Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a
litany of other government officials claimed repeatedly that disclosing
the reason Ibrahim was detained, or even acknowledging that she’d been
placed on a watch list, would cause serious damage to the U.S. national
security. Again and again they asserted the so-called “state secrets
privilege” to block the 48-year-old woman’s lawsuit, which sought only
to clear her name....