325,000 Names on Terrorism List

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Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021402125.html

Snip: <Rights Groups Say Database May Include Innocent People

By Walter Pincus and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Page A01

The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly 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 (NCTC) -- created in 2004 to be the primary U.S. terrorism intelligence agency -- contains a far greater number of international terrorism suspects and associated names in a single government database than has previously been disclosed. Because the same person may appear under different spellings or aliases, the true number of people is estimated to be more than 200,000, according to NCTC officials.

U.S. citizens make up "only a very, very small fraction" of that number, said an administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his agency's policies. "The vast majority are non-U.S. persons and do not live in the U.S.," he added. An NCTC official refused to say how many on the list -- put together from reports supplied by the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies -- are U.S. citizens. >

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[MercutioATC]

1. One of the guys I work with is on the "do not fly" list.

The irony? He's an air traffic controller.

He's passed psych exams. He's passed an FBI background check. He's certified to tell Air Force One where to fly....


...but he can't hop a flight to Duluth.



Gotta love these "security measures" that are "keeping us safe"....