FBI's terror watch list has 500,000+ names

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<< The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified.

A portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to "the entire watch list of 509,000 names," which is utilized by its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force...

U.S. lawmakers and their spouses have been detained because their names were on the watch list.
Reporters who have reviewed versions of the list found it included the names of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, at the time he was alive but in custody in Iraq; imprisoned al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui; and 14 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers, all of whom perished in the attacks. >>

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/fbi_terror_watc.html

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In other encouraging news...

<< The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens...

They noted: ... In March, Justice's inspector general found that FBI agents using National Security Letters "had demanded personal data without proper authorization, improperly obtained personal telephone records and banking records and underreported to Congress how often it used national security letters to obtain information on thousands of U.S. citizens." The inspector general found 48 violations of law and estimated there were 3,000 violations between 2003 and 2005. >>

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_FBI_Data_Mining.html

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FBI.. pigs, but on a federal level. 

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FBI.. pigs