Rerouting Air France flight in the air to avoid US airspace

The "No Fly List" strikes again. This time it forced Air France to reroute a flight from Paris to Mexico City, adding 4 hours and a stop in Martinique to refuel just so a journalist who's been highly critical of US government tactics in South America would not fly through US airspace.

I hope that the NY Times, Washington Post, McClatchy, NPR or another US media outlet pursues this story (translated here) and gives us more information on what happened and why. Here's what happened in the journalist's own words.

Once again it sounds like American paranoia has gone a little bit too far though I'd like to see what "justification", if any, is offered by the US government for such an action.