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Article: U.S. terrorist list hits 1 million names
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 14, 2008
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U.S. terrorist list hits 1 million names
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. terrorist watch list now
has 1 million names on it, partly due to the loose criteria for
adding names to the list, a rights group said Monday.
"America's new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for
what's wrong with this administration's approach to security," Barry
Steinhardt, a spokesman for American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU),
said in a statement.
"It's unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the
rights of the innocent as an afterthought, and is a very real
impediment in the lives of million of travelers in this country," he
added.
The Inspector General of the Justice Department ...
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