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Ludicrous Terrorist Watch List Now Contains
Over 1 Million Names
Children, airline pilots and respected professionals
deemed terrorist threats
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Newly released figures show that one million names now make
up the government's terrorist watch list, a dramatic rise of
around 32% in the last two years.
Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal
of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI's Terrorist Screening
Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information
and remove people cleared in investigations, reports
USA Today.
The statistics were provided by the screening
center and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
In May 2005, less than four years ago, the number
of names on the list was 288,000. Since that time it has almost
quadrupled, hitting 755,000 in May 2007 and 1 million as of
March 2009.
Those flagged on the watch list, established pursuant
to the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, can be blocked
from flying, stopped at borders or subjected to other scrutiny.
Civil liberties advocates and critics have charged that the
list is far too expansive to be in any way effective.
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Reports have confirmed that the watch list contains the names
of thousands of innocent Americans, including children,
lawyers and even a retired Air National Guard brigadier,
now a commercial pilot for a major airline.
We have previously highlighted the fact that a miniscule amount,
less
than 0.01% of Homeland Security cases are terrorism
related.
Other government watch lists, such as the so called "No
Fly List" and the CAPPS II system, used by airlines and
derived from the master terror list, have also come under heavy
criticism for subverting the First and Fourth Amendments.
In some cases credit reports have been used in calculating
the risk score, while the list has also been used to
target political activists opposing the death penalty
and the Iraq war.
Once again we are reminded that the terrorist threat to America
is vastly over hyped and is being used by a criminally controlled
government as an excuse to police the world and foment a domestic
police state to crush any dissent amongst the American people.
Last year the chairman of a House technology oversight subcommittee
warned that the database used to produce the government's
terror watch lists is "crippled
by technical flaws," and the system designed
to replace it may be even worse.
In a letter to the inspector general at the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence, Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) warned that
the upgrade "if actually deployed will leave our country
more vulnerable than the existing yet flawed system in operation
today."
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