Some of this might have been posted before the Sept. 25 Great Deletion, in which case this is a repost. At the end of this post are links for the actual manual used by the alphabet agencies to select no-fly list winners.

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Feds balk at court’s order to explain no-fly list selection process
The US shouldn't place innocent people on the no-fly list, lawyer says.
by David Kravets - Aug 28 2014

The Obama administration is fighting a federal judge's order requiring it to explain why the government places US citizens who haven't been convicted of any violent crimes on its no-fly database.

The administration is challenging the demand from US District Judge Anthony Trenga, who is presiding over the Virginia federal court case. In asking Trenga to reconsider his August 6 order, the government responded last week: "Defendants request clarification of the purpose of the requested submission so that defendants may respond appropriately."

Trenga's decision is among a series of setbacks to the government's insistence that any serious discussion about the no-fly list—about how people get on or off it—would amount to a national security breach.

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/feds-balk-at-courts-order-to-explain-no-fly-list-selection-process/

Here is an article about the manual which they don't want to explain (manual links are below):
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You don’t need to be a terrorist to get on no-fly list, US manual says
Guidelines say "concrete facts" are "not necessary" for terrorism watchlisting.
by David Kravets - July 24 2014
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/you-dont-need-to-be-a-terrorist-to-get-on-no-fly-list-us-manual-says/
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The March 2013 Watchlist Guidance manual, as posted on the internet by The Intercept:

PDF in a reader:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/23/march-2013-watchlisting-guidance/

Raw PDF file link (large file, 144 MB):
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1227228/2013-watchlist-guidance.pdf