875,000 People On Terror Watch List

The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a database – Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) – currently containing 875,000 names. Among them were the underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the Boston Marathon bombers. I think the haystack is getting so big it will eventually be impossible to find the needles, and we will be less free as a result.

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  1. With that many people on a watch list it becomes useless. From what I understand they have several lists to boot. As you said, the haystack is getting too big….

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