Tuesday, November 03, 2009

FBI has 400,000 people on terrorism “watch list”

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S. Mueller has told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI’s current terrorism “watch list” contains 400,000 unique names, with an average of 1,600 new individuals added each day.

According to the FBI, five percent of the individuals on this list are US citizens, and nine percent of the list overlaps with the government’s “no fly” lists, which has frequently blocked people from airline travel for no legitimate reason.

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