The terrorist watch list

This didn't get much attention yesterday. The much touted terrorist watchlist is a bigger boondoggle than we knew. It's has grown to 400,000 names and if you add aliases, it's over a million. But here's the really ridiculous aspect of the list.

The FBI has retained almost 24,000 names on the nation's terrorist watch list without current or proper justification, while failing to include people who are subjects of terrorist investigations, according to a Justice Department report issued yesterday.

In other words they're so busy chasing down non-terrorists on the list, that they don't have time to add the people who have been indentified in active investigations. Meanwhile, I'm sure they are still keeping people like Ted Kennedy and various four year olds from boarding planes simply because they're wrongfully on it.

Sometimes I wonder it we'll ever be able to clean up the mess that the Bush regime left us.

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