FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control'

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/fbi_terror_watc.html

FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control'
June 13, 2007 8:55 AM

Justin Rood Reports:
A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include
more than half a million names. 

Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing
uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.

The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is
classified. 

A portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the
Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to "the entire watch list of
509,000 names," which is utilized by its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task
Force.

A spokesman for the interagency National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),
which maintains the government's list of all suspected terrorists with links
to international organizations, said they had 465,000 names covering 350,000
individuals. Many names are different versions of the same identity --
"Usama bin Laden" and "Osama bin Laden" for the al Qaeda chief, for example.

In addition to the NCTC list, the FBI keeps a list of U.S. persons who are
believed to be domestic terrorists -- abortion clinic bombers, for example,
or firebombing environmental extremists, who have no known tie to an
international terrorist group.
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