U.S. keeps 325,000 names on terror suspect list

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U.S. keeps 325,000 names on terror suspect list
By Walter Pincus and Dan Eggen, The Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of alleged international terrorism suspects, or people who aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials.

The list kept by the National Counterterrorism Center -- created in 2004 to be the primary U.S. terrorism intelligence agency -- contains a far greater number of international terrorist suspects and associated names in a single government database than previously had been disclosed.

The National Security Agency is a key provider of information for the center's database, although officials refused to say how many names on the list are linked to the agency's controversial domestic eavesdropping effort. Under the program, the NSA has conducted wiretaps on an unknown number of U.S. citizens without warrants...

Civil liberties advocates and privacy experts said the size of the database further heightens their concerns that such government terrorism lists include the names of large numbers of innocent people. "We have lists that are having baby lists at this point; they're spawning faster than rabbits," said Timothy Sparapani, legislative counsel for privacy rights at the American Civil Liberties Union.

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[bullimiami]

1. john kerry, kennedy, al gore....

[progressoid]

2. 85,468 DU members

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. 300,000 out of 300,000,000. One person of every thousand is

a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser.

Guess who they are building those camps for.