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Massive U.S. Terror Screening Program Draws Outrage

An AP newswire article by Michael J. Sniffen, via The Washington Post, reports that:

A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from an unmarked, two-story brick building in Northern Virginia.

Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont pledged greater scrutiny of such government database-mining projects after reading that during the past four years millions of Americans have been evaluated without their knowledge to assess the risks that they are terrorists or criminals.

posted by Fergie @ 12/01/2006 05:59:00 PM