Today in Washington, D.C., the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program (TLP) marked the addition of the 1,000,000th name to the FBI-run Terrorist Screening Center’s terrorist watch list.
And if you had any doubts it's really not all terrorists. See, amazingly enough, real terrorists sometimes use fake names. So names like Ted Kennedy, Nelson Mandella, Robert Johnson, and Gary Smith are on the watch list. 60 minutes interviewed 12 Robert Johnson who get pulled aside for extra screening every time they fly. Can we please stop wasting out resources and everyone's time with this crap?
Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Happy One Million Names on the Watchlist!
It' an estimate but still Happy One Million Names on the Watchlist! "
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