One third of FBI Terror Watch List are innocent people
Published: 17 June, 2009, 13:51
U.S. government auditors have found that one-third of people on the FBI's list of terror suspects are there by mistake - blacklisting tens of thousands of innocent people.
The terror watch list was established in 2003 under the Bush administration, in the wake of fear after the 9/11 attacks. Today, the list includes more than 1,000,000 terrorist suspects. But there is no explanation as to why around 50,000 people appear on the list at all – the fields with their names are blank.
The list appears to be useless because of its size and high error rate, Michael German, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union told the Washington Examiner.
“There are 1.1 million people on the Terrorist Watch List and there is a 35 per cent error rate, minimum, for that list,” German was quoted by the paper.
Media outlets blame a big bureaucratic mistake to be behind such huge numbers. The system is also blamed for not being properly equipped with the functions to delete or update the list. And it lacks good management, said former U.S. District Attorney Joseph Di Genova in an interview with the Examiner.
“It’s important to have them, but they have to be run well and they have to be scrubbed regularly,” said Di Genova.
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I am a US citizen living in Canada. I have been on the no fly list for a few years. I have had the usual delays at airports and recently crossing into the US. The last conversation was not a pleasant experience. Imagine how many John Adams' are having the same problem. Perhaps, it is owing to having the name of a dead president. Dead presidents just don't fly. I am thinking of having a "John Adams" march on Washington...anyone interested???
I have been on the watch list since at least 1998. I was denied the Ph.D. at that time for unknown reasons. It is virtually unheard of to deny the Ph.D. to someone who has passed all the exams and written an approved dissertation. Since I spent my life studying, I nearly went insane over this travesty, but things only got worse. I was subsequently denied any type of professional employment. Typically, I worked minimum wage jobs for four months before I was brutally set up and forced to quit or fired. In 2001, the oppression greatly intensified. I was constantly stopped by police. There were roadblocks on all the access roads to my house and unmarked patrol cars staked out near my house 24/7. Helicopters from a nearby AFB buzzed my house day and night. Some agency confiscated my neighbor's house and lived there in shifts. My car battery was dead every other day. I could go on and on for eight more years of this type of terror. I was denied any help by lawyers, organizations, newspapers, etc. I was treated like a mass murderer even though I have never done anything wrong. I am completely innocent, yet every employer, landlord, and cop has appointed him/herself my judge, jury, and executioner. No charges have ever been brought because none exist. I cannot find out anything about "my case." Even if I am off the list now, my life is ruined. I no longer have a profession after ten years of being persecuted by criminally insane managers and administrators. I have no references. I think that everyone who persecuted me deserves at least ten years in prison for destroying the rule of law and obeying some fascists who are the real terrorists, and they include every administration since Clinton. Oklahoma was an inside job. In Evidence of Revision, you can watch the original broadcasts that prove there were three bombs in the federal building and two did not explode.