Andrew Zajac
A Justice Deparment Inspector General report out this morning lauds the FBI for developing a generally careful process for collecting names for the terrorism watch list, but nonetheless notes troubling difficulties including failure to remove names when appropriate.
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The watch list was set up by the federal government following 9-11 to collect names of people with possible links to terrorism. It contained about 860,000 names as of last October.
The likeliest place the list impacts ordinary citizens is at airports. If you have name that’s the same or similar that of someone on the list, you could be pulled aside for additional questioning and searches.
Today’s report is the latest in a string of evaluations that point to difficulties managing a growing list of such size and identify problems such as names wrongly included, difficulty in getting one’s name removed if it’s been incorrectly added and inability of government security services to detect people named on the list when they travel into or out of the country.
If you don’t have time for the full report, here’s the DOJ IG’s press release summarizing findings: Download file