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FBI COMES UP WITH BIGGEST CONSPIRACY YET: 400,000 MEMBERS
Washington Post - 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.
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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Let me see now... A person can be on the "watch list" because there is something about the government he/she doesn't like. Who makes up the list? Well, the government. That's probably fair and unbiased. It's also on of the main reasons we have the second amendment. Here's a bet: there would be even more on the list if the FBI had the budget for more staff.
So many enemies, so little time.
Only a government bureaucracy can make things so difficult. After all, its obvious that the FBI believes that everyone who isn't an FBI agent should be watched.
So, why don't they save everyone a lot of taxpayers money by just keeping a list of their own agents (which they would probably still find hard to do), and just admitting that everyone else is the enemy?
Sorry, Samson, although I like the gist of your viewpoint, you are in fact incorrect. Some of those FBI agents ARE enemies and "the bureau" knows this. They must be ferreted out too. Even more vigorously than run-of-the-mill lay - I mean civilian - enemies. That's the beauty of totalitarianism: it feeds on itself too.
And, oh yes, finding the moles within "the bureau" is pretty expensive and endless work, of that you can be sure. More budget, please.
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