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Considering the various "terrorist watch lists" are basically vaguely defined names and anyone can get added trivially, without review, and without a way to cha
by caseysoftware 9y ago
Considering the various "terrorist watch lists" are basically vaguely defined names and anyone can get added trivially, without review, and without a way to challenge[1], is anyone really surprised? When it's bad enough that a sitting US Senator was stopped and interrogated because "T Kennedy" was on the list[2], we passed that absurdity threshold a long time ago.
1 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/terrorist-watch-list_n_5617599.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/terrorist-watch-lis...
2 - http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/no-fly-mistakes-cat-stevens-ted-kennedy-john-lewis/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/no-fly-mistakes-cat-s...