by Jake Welch, The National Pulse:
The United States terrorist watchlist has expanded to over two million people, almost doubling over the past six years and including an ever-increasing number of U.S. citizens, according to a recent investigation.
The government watchlist, which contains the names of either known or suspected terrorists, had just 120,000 included when it first launched in 2003. However, it soon grew to over 1.16 million by 2017, and crossing the two million mark for the first time this month.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
Government policy requires agents to have a “reasonable suspicion” that someone may commit an act before they can be added to the watchlist. Yet, the government refuses to mention upon what the suspicion is based or what criteria must be met.
“It means there’s something that has led a department or agency to say, ‘This person needs a closer look,” stated U.S. intelligence service veteran Russ Travers. It doesn’t mean they’re a terrorist.”
A number of national security officials suggested there are a number of people who should have their names scrubbed from the list, with Travers admitting that there are likely “a lot of people that are in the database that are dead, that we don’t even know it.”
Indeed, the U.S. government has often demonstrated carelessness in maintaining the list but argues there are not enough people to audit every person’s file regularly.
Worse still, there have been countless examples of the government mistakenly adding people to the watchlist, such as one a Stanford PhD student who was forced to fight for over nine years to scrub her name from the list after an agent accidentally ticked the wrong box.
Read More @ TheNationalPulse.com
