Wednesday, September 28, 2011
FBI Watch List like the Hotel California
As in
We are programmed to receive.Charlie Savage examines newly disclosed information about how you can get on the list. There is also information on how the "authorities" should handle you if your name is on the list. But the best part is getting yourself off the list.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'
The 91 pages of newly disclosed files include a December 2010 guidance memorandum to F.B.I. field offices showing that even a not-guilty verdict may not always be enough to get someone off the list, if agents maintain they still have “reasonable suspicion” that the person might have ties to terrorism.Yup! You can never leave, And even if you get rid of any suspicion, that agent you dissed when you did can renominate you for the list. Perhaps the only positive is that the list is not used at the "packy" so you can get a bottle of wine.
“If an individual is acquitted or charges are dismissed for a crime related to terrorism, the individual must still meet the reasonable suspicion standard in order to remain on, or be subsequently nominated to, the terrorist watch list,” the once-classified memorandum says.
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Y'know, I think I wouldn't mind being on the watch list if it wasn't used to keep you off airplanes or otherwise interfere with your travels. That's the point at which it stops being merely creepy, and starts being downright Orwellian.
- Badtux the Creeped-out Penguin
- Badtux the Creeped-out Penguin
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