Terrorist Watchlist Has More Than One Million Names
Submitted by JerichoDotm on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 20:56Hundreds of thousands of people are being wrongly identified because of the government’s wasteful and inefficient management of the nation’s one million-strong terrorist watchlist, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The organization cited a recent report by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which found that the part of the watchlist maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may contain a 35 percent error rate.
The OIG audit also revealed that large portions of the list are governed by no formal processes for updating or removing records.
The ACLU says the audit “confirms that the nation’s watchlist system is massively broken.”
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Any way to find out who is
Any way to find out who is on the list? I was once held at the ticket counter at an airport because they said someone with my same name was on the list.
Good question
I was looking into that myself. I will file a FOIA request but I never get anywhere with them.