FBI Leaves Cleared Names On Terrorist Watch List 181
x_IamSpartacus_x writes "According to a recent FOIA request the FBI doesn't always take names off of the Terrorist Watch List even when those people have been cleared of charges or had charges dropped. 'If an individual is acquitted or charges are dismissed for a crime related to terrorism, the individual must still meet the reasonable suspicion standard in order to remain on, or be subsequently nominated to, the terrorist watch list,' the once-classified memorandum says. The New York Times is running a story about it as well, saying the data is even used by local police officers to check names during traffic stops."
Traffic stops and such (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not Guilty is Not Innocent (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What's wrong with this? (Score:4, Insightful)
And what if I call your name in as a faulty tip, and the tip is cleared as bogus, but you suddenly no longer have the same rights and privileges as everyone else?
The one thing that I love about these articles ... (Score:3, Insightful)
The one thing that I love about these articles is that they always bring out the paranoids who believe that we are days away from living in a totalitarian state simply because they have studied certain chapters in their history books and ignored others.
Welcome to the Corporate States of America... (Score:5, Insightful)
We have you right where we want you, meek and scared. Please leave your Liberty at the door, walk right in, get in queue over there, we'll give you your ID number and your occupational specialty. Then get in that line and we'll screen you with your urine sample to determine whether or not you use any substances that may somehow render your unable to work in our eyes.
It's all about control, folks, and you've lost every shred of it.
Re:guilty until finally proven guilty (Score:4, Insightful)
+1 Cardinal Richelieu.
âoeIf you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang himâ.