1,000,000+ Names On Terror Watch List
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Civil Liberties, Law, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The WorldDo we really think that this many people could be a threat to our national security?
A watch list of suspected and known terrorists, compiled by the US authorities, has ballooned and contains more than one million names, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday.The ACLU said it derived that figure from a Justice Department report on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, which consolidates terrorist watch list information.
The Center “had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month,” according to a report by the Justice Department Inspector General, the rights group said.
Now, the Transportation Security Administration contends that there are less than 450,000 people on it, but still…450,000? I guess that begs the question: what do you have to do to be put on this watch list?
Well…apparently not much…
Among those on the watch list are deceased people, such as former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was hanged in 2005, decorated war veterans, and US Senator Ted Kennedy, the ACLU said.
Simply absurd.
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