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U.S. Watch List Hobbled by Data Errors

Wilson P. Dizard III writes on GCN.com:

Four years after the federal government launched the interagency Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) and assigned it the daunting task of harmonizing more than a dozen separate watch lists, balky technology and quirky business practices still combine to introduce gaps and errors in the critical database.

For example, several known or suspected terrorists were not properly identified in the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), including 20 watch list records that were not made available to frontline officials, according to a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general. “We also found that the number of duplicate records in the database has significantly increased since our last review,” the auditors said.

posted by Fergie @ 9/17/2007 12:34:00 PM