Debate Revived Over Private Use Of Terror Watch Lists
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos writes for Fox News:
A debate over whether federal terror lists are wrongly singling out innocent Americans has been revived in a recent report suggesting that landlords, employers and even health insurers are vetting people against a Treasury Department terror list and not always getting it right.More here.
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area alleges that more Americans than ever are being mistakenly connected to the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of persons and companies engaging in or affiliated with terrorism.
(Props, Flying Hamster.)
posted by Fergie @ 5/01/2007 10:10:00 AM
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