From The Washington Post:
Number of names on terrorist watch list at 400,000, agency says.
Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.
During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in September and made public last week.
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My Comment: That is a lot of people. On top of these additions, there are also requests to delete 600, and to alter the records of about 4,800 per day. The bureaucracy to support this system must be incredible.
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