Terror Suspect List Raises More Concerns On Privacy

Washington Post:

The government's terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year. But only a small fraction of those questioned were arrested or denied entry into the United States, raising concerns among critics about privacy and the list's effectiveness.

A range of state, local and federal agencies as well as U.S. embassies overseas rely on the database to pinpoint terrorism suspects, who can be identified at borders or even during routine traffic stops. The database consolidates a dozen government watch lists, as well as a growing amount of information from various sources, including airline passenger data. The government said it was planning to expand the data-sharing to private-sector groups with a "substantial bearing on homeland security," though officials would not be more specific.

Read the whole story: Washington Post

Comments

[truthyguy]

06:56 PM on 08/25/2007

Thank you George Bush.
Without your financial acumen and leadership, this would not have been possible.

You're doin' a heck of a job Georgie.

[TLV]

06:29 PM on 08/25/2007

Who was Mohammad Atta? A word from his father after 9/11:
"I love the American people. They're good people," he said. "I mourn for them for anyone, American, Russian or Indian, who died. These are all people."

But his affection did not extend to the American government. Asked if he had a message for the American people, Atta said, "Elect someone different than these oil millionares who want to control the Arab world. Dick Cheney is a billionare from oil. Bush, his family has been in oil for generations...America hasn't had an honorable president since Roosevelt."...
...The father said his son was raised to be solidly apolitical and to focus on "work, home and family." He also said Muhammad had expressed his distaste for Bin Laden after the mid-90s bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan. "That was the only political opinion he ever expressed to me in his life."

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/atta.html

[patriotscholar]

04:09 PM on 08/25/2007

I am not surprised at how inept these guys seem to be. One would almost wonder if the spying programs might be more designed to target people in the US that disagree with the administration's policies tha it is to find real terrorists. It would not surprise me, considering how politicized this administration is, that the program may be used to spy on opposition party politicians, either directly or by "collateral information.
If you think about how the administration has came out with comments about certain politicians, it sounds as though they might have had insider info at times.
No, I don't trust them to do the program honorably or ethically.

[Sooner1976]

05:44 PM on 08/25/2007

Honor and integrity was lost the day Bushco took office. These programs are run with no accountability or responsibility. They have terrorized the American public into acting against their own self-interest.

[leftLibertarian]

03:41 PM on 08/25/2007

Without a doubt, Der Fuhrer Bush hates my liberty.

[esquire07]

03:22 PM on 08/25/2007

Most Dangerous Terrorist List

George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Robert Gates
Donald Rumsfield
Condi Rice
Colin Powell
George Tenant
Impeachement-off-the-table Pelosi
Paul Wolfowitz

Impeach - Execute !!!

[lornejl]

03:24 PM on 08/25/2007

You are a fantastic list maker, well done !

[TLV]

06:28 PM on 08/25/2007

Don't leave Chertoff off your list. He even let some possibly real Muslim terrorists get off when he was a lawyer, so I would count him as one of the worst.

[realitytrumpsbull]

03:14 PM on 08/25/2007

Will we end up like erstwhile East Germany one day, when one citizen was hired to basically spy on the next? What's REALLY going on, here? Hmmm...

[miketheintrepid]

02:45 PM on 08/25/2007

“One of the 9/11 hijackers, Ziad Samir Jarrah, was ticketed for going 95 miles per hour on Interstate 95 in Maryland two days before the attacks, he [Jim McMahon] said.”

Note to self: When driving in a foreign country be able to read more than just the numbers on highway signs.

[HumeSkeptic]

02:25 PM on 08/25/2007

I am with Dubya on this one. All Americans are terrorists because we all reside in the foremost terrorist nation of the world.

US has terrorized and killed more civilians than any other country or terrorist organization.

[lornejl]

02:42 PM on 08/25/2007

That comment won't win you any friends on the right Hume, I don't think you are reaching across the aisle.

[Amunaka]

03:04 PM on 08/25/2007

Well I know I'd like to reach across the Isle and just .......................

[HumeSkeptic]

04:43 PM on 08/25/2007

Friends don't let friends drive drunk ... or, whatever.

[DallasNE]

01:40 PM on 08/25/2007

It is a short step from where we are today to black lists like we saw in the McCarthy era where a person made a list as a Communist suspect and they couldn't get employment. It that where this is headed?

[BreadandRoses]

02:32 PM on 08/25/2007

It is if the Republicans retain the White House, or get control of the Congress.

The Republican party has been hijacked by the proto-fascists of Movement Conservatism.

That's why Il Duce Rudy has topped the polls from the right. He's an authoritarian who believes that only he has the answers for America.

[peacekitten]

02:51 PM on 08/25/2007

Unless the answer is 42, Rudy is SOL.

[lisakaz]

01:10 PM on 08/25/2007

Bu$hco is preparing for his fascist takeover I see. And some will be gleeful when it happens.

The founding fathers are weeping in their graves.

[nonewworldorder]

01:31 PM on 08/25/2007

http://deeperpolitics.gnn.tv/blogs/2854/Do_Americans_understand_false_flag_terrorism

[TheBurritoAssassin]

01:04 PM on 08/25/2007

I saw Tim Robbins on Bill Maher's show last night. He sucked. The guys from the Weekly Standard blew him up.

Good stuff. Hey dems, why don't you run someone legit for Pres? Neither Hillary, nor Obama, or Edwards can pull it off. pretty weak when you consider Bush has all but handed the liberals the keys to the whitehouse.

I pity your incompetence.

[misterbone]

01:08 PM on 08/25/2007

I pity Dems too. Imagine if Giuliani gets it? America's first incestuous drag queen since George W Bush.

[lornejl]

02:15 PM on 08/25/2007

If one of those dems wins, will you promise to blow yourself up jihad style ? ( in an empty field, so your stinking body parts don't splatter on anyone )

[TheBurritoAssassin]

11:01 AM on 08/26/2007

no, I believe suicide is a sin. I will sit and take it for 4 years, all they way demonstrating the dignity and class that you dems have failed to exhibit since 2000.

[JoJoGunner]

12:19 PM on 08/25/2007

This if off thread, but too good to miss:

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Rev. Ted Haggard, who left the megachurch he founded after admitting to "sexual immorality," has asked supporters for financial assistance while he and his wife pursue their studies.
The former New Life Church pastor plans to seek a master's degree in counseling at the University of Phoenix while his wife studies psychology, he said in an e-mail sent this week to KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs

Check's in the mail Ted.

[oneseye]

12:27 PM on 08/25/2007

Geez the guy couln't have been much of a preacher if he wasn't rich.

[JoJoGunner]

12:31 PM on 08/25/2007

He made good bucks, but he spent good bucks too.

[LloydTheBartennder]

12:31 PM on 08/25/2007

Ya why doesn't the fucker just aks God for the money?...

[misterbone]

12:45 PM on 08/25/2007

The University of Phoenix? That joke of a correspondence school? Why not Liberty Baptist or Regenet university....oh, right, they don't admit fags.

[lthuedk]

12:05 PM on 08/25/2007

Removing HS and Chertoff's gang will be challenging. Let's face it, the U.S. is not Israel and we do not need the Mossad and Likud framing our security like Lebanon, Siria, and Iran were our next door neighbors.

We're being played and the terror scam is obvious.

Let's move totalitarianism out of the United States for good. Americans have never allowed themselves to be tools of another country or a foreign ideology, and it should not start now.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/chertoffs_lament.html
.

[ghostsofamerica]

12:19 PM on 08/25/2007

Friday, August 24, 2007
60%


“He notes what author JJ Goldberg reported in his book Jewish Power: Inside the Jewish Establishment. Goldberg wrote in the early 1990s that 45% of the Democrat Party’s fundraising and 25% of that for the Republicans came from Jewish-funded Political Action Committees (PACS).


http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/08/60_24.html





Quotes from Zionists

There are some pretty choice quotes from shockingly honest Zionists. You can find them in places like here and here. A few samples (emphasis in red; if you wonder about my continuing concerns about the Zionist Empire, see 12 to 16; 11 is so accurate a statement of Israeli negotiating procedure it is almost funny):


http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/08/quotes-from-zionists.html

[oneseye]

12:30 PM on 08/25/2007

Nations do not have morals. They have only interests.

[turningpoint]

11:58 AM on 08/25/2007

The powers that be seem to be awfully afraid of their own citizens. I wonder why that is?

[MissingAmerica]

11:50 AM on 08/25/2007

Bush has placed himself above the laws of this country. In the process, he has cost hundreds of thousands of lives on all sides. He has cost this country our bravest citizens, our security (economic and otherwise) and has taken our freedom. In other words, he is using his self-serving agenda to destroy democracy. He lied to us about the WMD in Iraq in order to start this war, and he is lying to us again by saying that he is trying to protect us. Truth is, he is running his own agenda. He needs to be stopped. It is time to impeach.

[KBAR]

12:56 PM on 08/25/2007

You honestly buy all the crap you posted?

If you do, please do everyone a favor and move to some Socialist utopia and tell them how to run things.

[BreadandRoses]

02:29 PM on 08/25/2007

And just why should he--or anyone---move to another country because he hates the damage Bush has done to America?

Everything in his post is true, and you offer nothing but a personal attack.

You cannot refute anything he said---you can only question his patriotism and intelligence.

You really aren't all that bright, are you?
Otherwise, you might have seen that your posts are all about attacking those who disagree with you---never about discussing the actual issues.

You also have no idea on God's green earth what socialism is---or what liberalism is, or what the Democratic party stands for.

As long as you continue to post such witless drivel, which is empty of content and completely lacking in understanding of the issues, you will remain a laughingstock.

[Amunaka]

02:47 PM on 08/25/2007

KBAR)
You honestly buy all the crap you posted?

If you do, please do everyone a favor and move to some Socialist utopia and tell them how to run things.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


What and leave this country to the likes of you ...I don't think so ..