On Mar 19, 1:19 am, Ernst Blofeld <blofel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The ACLU is exaggerating to make an interesting story. One might say
> they are fear-mongering.
LOL!
>
> 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-...
> ---
> 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.
I see. So how does this change the fact that the government thinks
there are almost 1 million terrorists in America?
Quick answer: It doesn't.
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.
> ---
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/60minutes/main2066624.shtml
> ---
> 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.
> ---
>
> 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.
|
