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The No-Fly List
CBS News reported that the No-Fly List, compiled after 9/11 to "prevent an Islamic terrorist who's associated with al-Queda from getting on a plane" is "incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, and a source of aggravation to thousands of innocent Americans." The version available to airport screeners is "sanitized of the most sensitive information", because "intelligence agencies that supply the names don't want them circulated to airport employees in foreign countries for fear that they could end up in the hands of terrorists." Before 9/11 the list had 16 names on it; after 9/11, the list grew to include 44 thousand names, not including an additional 75 thousand names on the additional security screening list. Now there's another list: names of people who have shouldn't be on the first list. You have to apply to get on that list. The list airport screeners see has no birth dates or physical descriptions. For the past three years, the TSA has spent about 144 million dollars to develop a program called Secure Flight-- it hasn't been implemented yet.
Tags: Department of Homeland Security; anti-war activists; Iraq; No-Fly List; wiretaps; FBI; Excel; heads-of-state; Transportation Security Administration; TSA; data dump; National Security News Service; Joe Trento; NSA; Zaccarias Moussaoui; FBI Terrorist's Screening Center; Donna Bucella; Dawud Salahuddin; David Belfield; Kip Hawley; Cathy Berrick; General Accounting Office; Secure Flight
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Tough Justice
"The stories examined the origins and consequences of the Bush administration's policies for the military detention and prosecution of terrorist suspects since 9/11. In part, they sought to investigate the abuse of prisoners by their American jailers, both in the United states and abroad. What was unique about coverage of The Times, however, was that it manages to penetrate the government's extraordinary secrecy about the subject to both reconstruct the creation of this new military justice system and assess the intelligence effort that was its bedrock rationale."
Tags: prison; abuse; Abu Graib; Defense Department; National Security Council; Guantanamo Bay; Al Queda
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How the FBI blew the case
The whistle blowing memo from Collen Rowley is a scathing series of accusations on how the FBI might have prevented or limited the attacks of 9/11.
Tags: terrorism; September 11; 2001; 9/11; Al Queda; FBI; CIA; whistle blower; intelligence
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Enemies at the gate; Root of evil
CBS News reports on the search for those responsible for the September 11 tragedy. The two-part investigation focuses mostly on the possible role of the French citizen Zacarias Moussaoui suspected to be the "missing" 20th hijacker. The first segment attempts to answer general questions about the terrorist attacks, while the second part examines how the "quiet French student became a fanatic."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Sept. 11; Al-Queda; Osama bin Laden; World Trade Center; Pentagon