[lit-ideas] 30,000 Terrorists in the USA!
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:45:22 -0800
Tens of thousands mistakenly put on terrorist watch lists
Anne Broache, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
December 6, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-7348_3-5984673.html?pagewanted=print
WASHINGTON--Nearly 30,000 airline passengers discovered in the past year that they were
mistakenly placed on federal "terrorist" watch lists, a transportation security official
said Tuesday. Jim Kennedy, director of the Transportation Security Administration's redress
office, revealed the errors at a quarterly meeting convened here by the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.
Travelers have to ask the TSA to remove their names from watch lists by submitting a
"Passenger Identity Verification Form" and three notarized identification documents. On
average, he said, it takes officials 45 to 60 days to evaluate the request and make any
necessary changes.
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And what did we expect? 30,000 Americans are mistakenly on a terrorist watch list, and not
one single terrier was caught. The whole thing is a sick joke.
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