Report: Thousands wrongly on terror list

[ckramer]

Thousands of people have been mistakenly linked to names on terror watch lists when they crossed the border, boarded commercial airliners or were stopped for traffic violations, a government report said Friday.

More than 30,000 airline passengers have asked just one agency — the Transportation Security Administration — to have their names cleared from the lists, according to the Government Accountability Office report.

Hundreds of millions of people each year are screened against the lists by Customs and Border Protection, the State Department and state and local law enforcement agencies. The lists include names of people suspected of terrorism or of possibly having links to terrorist activity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_on_go_ot/terror_watch_list

[rodeodance]

1. with stuff like this-it is like "there but the grace of god go I"

[longship]

2. I'll find out next week.

I'm flying to DC area for vacation. Haven't flown in a couple of years.
I wonder if my travel papers are in order. Hope so.
:evilgrin:

[jarnocan]

3. wow 30,000 complaining and most likely

have done nothing wrong at all. I wonder if the ones who are citizens here wil be able to vote.
I wonder if they will put people on for signing petitions, and being involved in groups like www.Worldcantwait.net We should be able to just check, but of course if you did you'd probably get added to the list for checking:)

[Betty]

4. next step: thousands wrongly declared enemy combatants

with no legal rights to challenge.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Simple solution -don't fly, or stay out of the USSA -

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I decided to do both the day I saw the first United States bomb drop on Baghdad.

Best decision I ever made IMO - -

[kestrel91316]

6. Heck, they should take some of the innocent nobodies off the list and

put ME on it. I'd be damned proud to be on this administration's enemies list. As I hope the rest of you would, too.

[ShockediSay]

7. With hearsay evidence, secret evidence, coerced confession

any one of these can be dragged off to Gitmo and sentenced to life or death.

McCain, L Graham, J Warner & Colin Powell think this is just fine

[bvar22]

8. This is why it is your DUTY...

...to NOT do any of the following:

Never report your Republican neighbors to the Dept of Homeland Security.

Please don't make anonymous denouncements from public computers, public telephones, snail mail.

Never use your imagination, and avoid being creative. Never season your denouncement with specific details.

This system will FAIL if too many liberal Human Rights & Civil Rights activists bury it with data, and we wouldn't want any rich, white Republicans to be denied their right to travel.


If nobody denounces just one Republican per day, this system won't choke like a stopped up toilet.

[indepat]

9. The corrupted terra list is symptomatic of a corrupted government

which knowing puts out a known highly corrupted list.