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.

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 :

As one of the most powerful intelligence tools created by the Bush administration after the 2001 attacks, the watch list is used to screen about 270 million people a month and its content can determine whether people are allowed to fly on airplanes or detained after routine traffic stops.

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.

We definitely need to decrease the chances an idiot could slip through, too.

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

Didn’t you say yesterday, that the US deserved 9/11?

Comment by Ringo — September 5, 2007 @ 1:06 pm

I did, because we did. Prove me wrong.

Comment by toasterhead — September 5, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/goldsmith-politics-hiring/#comment-4059371

toasterhead = traitor

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.
I 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.

According to Dumbya’s logic, we should throw them in with the ‘Axis of Evil’ and commence bombing, stupid troll!

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What?

Like their system made more sense.

As are YOU – ruby ridge boy!

Well, there might be some truth to this. After all, TP is still up and running!

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.

On the bright side, you can charge admission to your fellow peepers.
Even let them write it off as a campaign contribution.

Yes, unfortunately, we will have to monitor our own.

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!