Government’s terrorist screening system full of errors.
By on Sep 6th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Government’s terrorist screening system full of errors.
The Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), the government’s terrorist screening database that monitors 270 million people each month, “continues to be marred by errors and inconsistencies that can result in the detention of innocent people and increase the chances a terrorist could slip through,” according to Justice Department auditors.
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Like detaining Mr. “Buttle” instead of Mr. “Tuttle” perhaps?
September 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pm270 million people is about how many people live in the US, not including some of the kids.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pmWe definitely need to decrease the chances a terrorist could slip through.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:41 pmoh veh! That’s what happens when you have a new guy in charge. Jack Abramoff we miss you.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:46 pmLike detaining Mr. “Buttle†instead of Mr. “Tuttle†perhaps?
Comment by Menehune — September 6, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
ROFL, not sure how many will get that, but very true. I think that problem was a fly in the printer though. This problem is far more widespread, though I am in agreement that we want to decrease the number of terrorists onto airplanes as much as possible.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:47 pmyou mean eenie meenie meinie mo wasn’t working?
September 6th, 2007 at 4:48 pmLike detaining Mr. “Buttle†instead of Mr. “Tuttle†perhaps?
Comment by Menehune
Best DeNiro role ever.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:50 pmHere progressive falsifiers go again with their unrelenting fear mongering based on hypotheticals and theoretical scenarios. Like so many things with progressive thought, they constantly refuse to apply logic and separate hypotheticals and theory from actual practice. Translating for these progressive knuckle-draggers, the JD audit concluded only that the errors CAN result in the hypothetical of detaining innocents. What’s really crooked is how the progtarded fools will misinterpret this to mean that programs like the TSC and others should be immediately abolished. Because, let’s face it. Progressives love to take statistical errors in govt terror programs in order to condemn the whole program as being an invasion of civil liberties and a jailing of the “innocent.” I’d rather have a few people wrongly pursued (which is inevitable due to the law of statistics) than have terrorists be given the advantage without such programs.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:51 pmAnd should we now acknoledge we have our own personal world terrorests in the black house?..Pre emtive attack on an innocent country spell’s terrorist to me…What say you all…Blessings
September 6th, 2007 at 4:53 pmHere progressive falsifiers go again with their unrelenting fear mongering based on hypotheticals and theoretical scenarios. Comment by OsabawantstobomballyPakistan — September 6, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
You mean like the hypotheticals that the terrorist will follow us home, or the theoretical scenario that Iraq might attack us someday so we have to hit them when they’re helpless? You retarded hypocrite!
September 6th, 2007 at 4:55 pm#8…I’d rather have a few people wrongly pursued
What if it’s you?
September 6th, 2007 at 4:57 pmComment by OsabawantstobomballyPakistan — September 6, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
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So you won’t be complaining then, when you and your family are taken away. OK.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:57 pm270 MILLION people per MONTH! Are you kidding? I had no idea there were that many terrorists around. And Bush’s government is screwing that up also? Who woulda thought?
September 6th, 2007 at 4:58 pm270 Million people per month. That is all that needs to be said.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pmA terrorist is, by broad definition, any person or group of persons who seek to intimidate, manipulate, or control other persons.
Using means to frighten, undermine, cause anxiety, injure, maim or kill for the sake of control is terrorism.
The schoolyard bully and his gang of frightened followers extort, intimidate and abuse other students.
The preacher who threatens his congregation with eternal damnation if they don’t fill the collection plate, is a terrorist.
The spouse who threatens, whether physical, or verbal, is a terrorist.
The boss who glowers from his corner office and barks out a demeaning comment as you walk past, is a terrorist.
The politician whose fearmongering rants on and on about the dark and faceless enemy to our precious lifestyle of exploitation and wastefullness is a very dangerous terrorist.
We have a lot of terrorists in our fearful midst.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pmThe end of terrorism begins in each of our hearts and minds.
We definitely need to decrease the chances a terrorist could slip through.Comment by Jake D. — September 6, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
Yeh, we need to add another 270 milion to the list. Better yet lets make America into a prison and just do away with all our rights so them terrorists, all 540 miilion of them, wont hate our freedom anymore.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:10 pmIt is thru laws that man has freed himself and it is thru laws that he will again imprison himself.
Ya know, congress should start removing old laws instead of creating so many new laws that are nothing but vehicles for pork
September 6th, 2007 at 5:12 pmwell, it’s an easy answer for the rightards. if they hate us for our freedoms, then let’s take our own freedoms away and flush them, then they’ll like us, right? Right?
Idiots, stupid to the bone. Run Betrayus, he can hardly lose worse than any of the other mannequins and perverts you’re running from the GOP.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:15 pmBush & Co. is too incompetent to come up with a reliable database — so instead they put EVERYONE on the list. That way, no one can claim they missed a true terrorist.
In the same way, when Bush is asked whether Iran, Iraq, or Syria is the greatest threat to the U.S., he replies, “Yes.”
September 6th, 2007 at 5:17 pmwell, it’s an easy answer for the rightards. if they hate us for our freedoms, then let’s take our own freedoms away and flush them, then they’ll like us, right? Right?
We must remove our freedoms so the terrorists wont attack us!!
We need walls deep strong and long, we need cameras in every home in every car and every classroom, we need to monitor the parks, the beaches, the nightclubs and the planes, the trains, the subways.
We must stop all sexual intercourse, we must destroy all books, we must monitor brainwaves, we must implant chips in your skin, we must outlaw affection, we must outlaw emotion, we must outlaw guns.
To keep you safe, we must rule every aspect of your lives and deprive you of freedom. Your home will be searched when your away, the repairmen will be spies, the police wil be robots.
Vote For Me, Im a Republican and I am not a communist!
September 6th, 2007 at 5:28 pmDon’t forget to monitor the men’s restrooms.
September 6th, 2007 at 6:06 pmDon’t forget to monitor the men’s restrooms.
Comment by Polly Mathe
Yes, unfortunately, we will have to monitor our own.
September 6th, 2007 at 6:16 pm“Yes, unfortunately, we will have to monitor our own.”
On the bright side, you can charge admission to your fellow peepers.
September 6th, 2007 at 6:29 pmEven let them write it off as a campaign contribution.
How do we get Jake D Fake and Mr. P (brain) on that list?
September 6th, 2007 at 6:43 pmJust wait for them to show up at an airport mens room.
September 6th, 2007 at 6:53 pmWell, darn, there’s the problem. We are still at least 20-30 million short of listing ALL Americans as terrorists.
As soon as that is taken care of, and the school program training kids to inform on their parents is in place, we should be OK.
See there, problem solved.
September 6th, 2007 at 6:53 pmPseudo Osama stopped thirty feet from GWBush’s big ole limo…in australia….where all the people have been caged so they can’t come near the Great One….whassup?
September 6th, 2007 at 6:57 pmGovernment’s terrorist screening system full of errors
Well, there might be some truth to this. After all, TP is still up and running!
September 6th, 2007 at 7:35 pmWell, there might be some truth to this. After all, TP is still up and running!
Comment by mrp — September 6, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
As are YOU – ruby ridge boy!
September 6th, 2007 at 7:46 pmNo, no, no, people. It’s not 270 million people. It’s 270 million people per month. So look for the 270 people that fly a million times each month. Those are probably the terrorists you’re looking for.
…
What?
Like their system made more sense.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:47 pmOne of the German terror plotters trained in Pakistan, YOU KNOW, that TRUSTED ally…
According to Dumbya’s logic, we should throw them in with the ‘Axis of Evil’ and commence bombing, stupid troll!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:11 pm#8…I’d rather have a few people wrongly pursued
We would be better off wrongly pursuing a few people who commit murder, rape, robbery and gang violence in far greater numbers every month. Of course we do while the real criminals are often not identified and crime statistics are staggering. In spite a U.S. population of 300 million people we have had few significant terrorist attacks. In spite just a handful of arrests and fewer prosecutions often wrongly pursued and leading to acquital we have virtually no Islamic terrorism.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:13 pmI would rather have no right to firearms than no other rights. We have tens of thousands of murders and many more accidental gun deaths each year. We have as many guns as people more per capita than any other country. We have more gun related crime not surprisingly than practically anywhere.
We have also many other causes of death that could be eliminated or greatly reduced using the twelve or so billion each year that Homeland Security spends. The two trillion or so being spent in Iraq could likely eliminate cancer, certainly cold save many lives now lost due poverty, could make our infrastructure safe and pay for health care that would extend the length and quality of our lives. Global warming regardless its cause is going to displace many more people from our coastal cities. We need to pay for that and easily could using that money. The 3753 dead soldiers in Iraq could instead be producing and perhaps helping secure a better future for their children.and spouses In addition the two trillion in direct costs the loss of their productivity and the costs of disability of others are a further drain on our future.
We need capture and try only a few terrorists to make us safer namely Bush, Cheney and their co-conspirators.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371
toasterhead = traitor
September 6th, 2007 at 11:43 pmThe Washington Post article from which this post by Think Progress is taken says 720,000 names are on the list, not 270 million!
September 7th, 2007 at 8:55 am>We have also many other causes
>of death that could be eliminated
> or greatly reduced using the twelve
> or so billion each year that Homeland Security spends.
guys guys just because your over 10,000 more times likely to be killed by one of your fellow americans than your are by a foreigner isnt something these retards are able to accept. the flu is more dangerous. thunder is more dangerous. slipping in the bathtub is more dangerous. id say the chance of an enormous meterorite devastating the earth is more likely than a non-state actor getting ahold of a nuke and successfully delivering it.
> Here progressive falsifiers go again
Shut up you scabby methead Meagan apfrodite … for chrissakes just sign with your real fake name…. lol
September 7th, 2007 at 9:13 am“We definitely need to decrease the chances a terrorist could slip through.”
We definitely need to decrease the chances an idiot could slip through, too.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:19 am“they constantly refuse to apply logic”
LOGIC in this case being what “the decider” refers to as “a gut feeling.”
As far as I can tell, what ‘cons such as yr self refer to as “logic” is synonymous with what they refer to as “common sense” which equates (in their tiny, nut-like minds) to “what I like.”
Nice big words in your post, however. Very impressive.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:21 am#
The Washington Post article from which this post by Think Progress is taken says 720,000 names are on the list, not 270 million!
Comment by Lynn Lightfoot — September 7, 2007 @ 8:55 am
TP didn’t say there was 270mm on the list, it says that the the program monitors 270mm people, which btw, is what the Washington Post article says as well :
September 7th, 2007 at 11:19 am
To Never Learned to read? @ #38
The post on Think Progress said the TSC used their database to monitor 270 million people per month. When I learned to read, the verb “monitor” meant “to watch over.” Therefore I believe the post as written is misleading. Presumably it is the 720,000 people whose names are on the TSC list that are being monitored. The 270 million just have their names checked to see if they are on the TSC list.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:07 pm