The ACLU is exaggerating to make an interesting story. One might say
they are fear-mongering.
On Mar 18, 9:29 pm, gjohn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> The group says its count is "extrapolated from a September 2007 re****t
> by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, which re****ted
> that the Terrorist Screening 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." As of Wednesday afternoon, the ACLU
> said there were about 917,500 names on the list.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071026-re****t-terrorist-watch-list-swells.html
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A new re****t from the Government Accountability Office finds that the
number of people on the government's Terrorist Watch List has swelled
to more than 750,000. That number has been growing by 200,000 per year
since the list's inception in 2003. Online discussions of the re****t
have reflected a common misconception: the terrorist watch list is not
the same as the no-fly list, which gets you banned from airplanes
altogether, or the selectee list, which the TSA uses to decide who
gets extra screening in the security line. According to the GAO, the
standards for adding someone to the no-fly and selectee lists are more
stringent than the standards for adding individuals to the broader
watch list, and as a result, those lists are much shorter than the
full watch list. The re****t does not give details on the size of these
lists, but re****ts have pegged the lists at 44,000 and 75,000 people,
respectively.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/60minutes/main2066624.shtml
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today there are 44,000. And that doesn't include people the government
thinks should be pulled aside for additional security screening. There
are another 75,000 people on that list.
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the list is also world-wide, not limited to US residents. Bin Laden is
on it, just in case he decides to take the flight from Pakistan to New
York.
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