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February 15, 2006
Making a list
The National Counterterrorism Center now has 325,000 names on its list of people suspected to be terrorists or individuals aiding terrorists, the Washington Post reports. The current list started in 2003 with 75,000 names.
Officials would not speak on the record about whether any of the people listed are U.S. citizens; one official, speaking anonymously, said "only a very, very small fraction" are U.S. citizens.
No details have been given about how a wrongly listed person could work to be removed from the list. Critics, including representatives from the ACLU and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, weigh in on this issue.
The article gives details about some of the interagency use of the list's information. The NCTC, for example, supplies a subset of its list to the FBI along with "one of 25 codes such as 'Member of Foreign Organization,' 'Hijacker,' or 'Has Engaged in Terrorism.'"
The article refers to a June 2005 Justice Department report that was critical of some elements of the NCTC list-building protocol.
Posted by Carlos Roig at February 15, 2006 06:57 AM
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