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Article: Some questions and answers about US terrorist watch list
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- November 9, 2007
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Watch-list screening is best known _ and widely reviled _ for putting two members of Congress, a senator's wife, a few infants and thousands of innocent U.S. residents through extensive searching and questioning before they were allowed to fly.
Since the terrorist attacks of 2001, the government has stepped up its screening of travelers to try to find possible terrorists. The key weapon has been the watch list. Federal officials combined a dozen different watch lists into one unified terrorist watch list and the number of names on it soared from 12 on 9/11 to more than 880,000 today. That contributed to the extra questioning of Democrats Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Lewis, ...