Top Justice Dept. Prosecutor Appears On Terror Watch List

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080714/terror-watchlist/

Prosecutor turned up on US terror watch list

LARA JAKES JORDAN | July 14, 2008 12:28 PM EST | AP


WASHINGTON — The name of the Justice Department's former top criminal prosecutor turned up on the government's terror watch list.

This terrorism-era roster, which likely has caused thousands of innocent Americans to be questioned or searched, popped up with the name of former Assistant Attorney General Jim Robinson.

Robinson joined another mistaken-identity American and the American Civil Liberties Union Monday in calling for elimination of the list that's designed to identify suspected terrorists.

The ACLU estimates that 1 million records will have been added to the list by the end of July.

Chad Kolton, a spokesman for the Terrorist Screening Center that maintains the list, says that number includes aliases. Kolton said about 400,000 individuals are on the list, nearly all of whom are foreigners.

[groovedaddy]

1. Off to Guantanamo with him! We'll sort it out from there!!! n.t

[Newsjock]

2. Wait a minute! Jim Robinson?

As in founder of, um, er, FR?
No wonder the name is on the list!

Oh, this just made my day.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. That's the impression I first had.

But I am sure it isn't RimJob. He's just too damn "patriotic". Just ask him.

[smoogatz]

3. If he's done nothing wrong, he's got nothing to worry about.

And he'll get used to that routine TSA body-cavity search before long. Hell, he may even learn to enjoy it.

[librechik]

5. That's it. From now on I'm travelling under the name Dick Cheney.

[TexasObserver]

6. I think he prefers to be called "Rim Job"