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Feel Secure Yet? 750,000 on the Terrorist Watchlist

October 31, 2007 B. John 283 Views 1 Comment Homeland Security, Terrorism, Terrorists, Watch List

According to a report in the USAToday, the Terrorist Watchlist now contains 755,000 names. Approximately 200,000 names have been added each year since 2004. Obviously this raises a ton of concerns by those interested in civil liberties. The list is quickly headed to a million, and it’s shear size makes it impossible to use it effectively.

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Watch List Datamart

April 9, 2007 B. John 328 Views 2 Comments Authoritarianism, Database, facism, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Terrorist, Watch List

The master list the federal government keeps of known and suspected terrorists, from which other government agencies derive their own watch lists, already hundreds of thousands of names large, is growing out of control, filling with “fragmentary,” “inconsistent” and “sometimes just flat-out wrong” information, a top counterterrorism official said.