We have "secret" laws

We continue down the slippery slope to a third world dictatorship.

I'm going to let the article speak for itself.

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Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a former Republican congresswoman from Idaho, was stopped from flying from Boise to Reno, Nev., last month because she asked to read the regulation authorizing Transportation Security Administration employees to pat her down at the airport gate. Chenoweth-Hage was told she couldn't see the directive because the TSA said it was sensitive security information and so could not be publicly released. "A secret law? I didn't think that happened to Americans," she said. Chenoweth-Hage was given the choice of submitting to the pat-down or not flying. "I was resolved to see the regulation," she said, explaining that she drove to Reno. She has not flown since.

The secret rules are an outgrowth of a 1974 law that allowed the Federal Aviation Administration to withhold from public disclosure any information "detrimental to the safety of persons traveling in air transportation." After 9/11, Congress transferred airport security to the newly created TSA in the Department of Homeland Security and broadened the FAA rule to cover anything that might be "detrimental to the security of transportation." The government is now declaring all forms of interstate transportation - including airplanes, buses, trains and boats - covered by the cloak of "sensitive security information" and moving to keep information from public scrutiny, said Todd Tatelman, an attorney with the Congressional Research Service.

There's more to the article. But, this highlights the main parts.