the rulebook detailed “the parallel judicial system for watchlisting people and categorizing them as known or suspected terrorists without needing to prove they did anything wrong.” Such rules, also applicable to US citizens, could be used to bar individuals from flying and permit their detention in airports and at borders “while being denied the ability to challenge government declarations about them.”
[southfront.org]
The biggest threat to an authoritarian tyranny is when the people learn their secrets. Whistleblowers become the new terrorists to the tyrants. They have to stomp out whistle blowing or lose their power.