1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list

Source: Washington Post

1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list
Number of names on terrorist watch list at 400,000, agency says
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in September and made public last week.

FBI officials cautioned that each nomination "does not necessarily represent a new individual, but may instead involve an alias or name variant for a previously watchlisted person."

The ever-churning list is said to contain more than 400,000 unique names and over 1 million entries. The committee was told that over that same period, officials asked each day that 600 names be removed and 4,800 records be modified. Fewer than 5 percent of the people on the list are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. Nine percent of those on the terrorism list, the FBI said, are also on the government's "no fly" list.

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1600 a day! simply amazing. And only 5% on that list are real citizens?
They must be just pouring over the borders!
How did the U.S. Government fail so badly in letting so many illegals into this country?
Obviously someone is not doing their job.
:sarcasm:

because as far as I know I am not on the list.

1600 a day is .2% of our population every year. In 10 years that's 2 percent of all of us... 1 out of 50. I know they said there's a lot of repetition, but unless they clarify that, those numbers are all we have to go on.

And as if there are govt. employees putting everyone they can on to cover their butts.

how the Gestapo's "database" was created - using librarians etc watching for those who appeared to be Jewish, gay, mentally challenged.............

because otherwise we have 10 wartime divisions of terrorists that need deployment of crack troops to be dealt with

I wonder if the FBI is even considering them.
I guess that's "classified", too.

mark

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