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Article: One Terrorist Watch List.(EDITORIAL)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 8, 2004
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The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has admonished the DHS for not compiling a single watch list for screening terrorists. In a report, Clark Kent Ervin concludes that efforts to compile a single terrorist watch list from about a dozen separate lists have been too ad hoc.
Both Congress and the president ordered such a list following 9/11. Yet three years later, agencies still haven't come up with one list, and are using lists that contain outdated information and even contradict one another, according to the 54-page report.
That mirrors the conclusion of the government's overall watchdog, the General Accountability Office. In April ...