Report: Terror Database Missing Some Info

[Judi Lynn]

Report: Terror Database Missing Some Info
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer

Monday, June 13, 2005
(06-13) 08:44 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

The nation's new centralized database for terror suspects is missing some names that should be in it and has inaccurate information about others, the Justice Department inspector general said Monday.

In addition, in one instance last year, someone on the government's no-fly list was allowed to board a domestic airline flight because of poor coordination between the FBI-run Terrorist Screening Center and other law enforcement agencies, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said.

The center, created in September 2003 by a presidential directive, combines about a dozen databases from nine agencies that any government official — from a Customs agent at an airport to a state trooper watching for speeders — can consult to check the name of someone who has been screened or stopped.

"While the TSC had successfully created and deployed a consolidated watch list database, the TSC has not ensured that the information in that database is complete and accurate," Fine said in a 184-page audit.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/13/national/w084445D14.DTL

[sabra]

1. We are winning the war on terra!

[Just Me]

2. Kinda' sets up a "hole" for a future terror attack,...

,...doesn't it, this report?

I have become so skeptical these days that I simply can't trust the veracity of anything that is generated out of the executive without suspecting there is some underlying purpose.

[ixion]

3. boy, I sure am glad we got rid of those pesky civil rights...

it's obviously made us sooooo much safer. :eyes:

:sarcasm:

[rainbow4321]

8. On the post 9/11 list: Cereal thieves, Sudenese actor, "marriage scams"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100380.html?nav=rss_print/asection

More than a year before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the FBI nabbed two Arab grocers loading boxes onto a tractor-trailer outside a drab gray apartment building here. The cargo: stolen Kellogg's cereal.

Agents did not charge the men that day, and set them free. But 16 months later, soon after hijacked planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the FBI was back. This time, agents arrested the pair and a third Arab grocer. After they were grilled about the terrorist attacks, the men were charged and pleaded guilty -- to conspiracy to possess the pilfered cornflakes.

To this day, the three grocers remain on the federal government's list of terrorism cases, although they never were charged with a terrorism-related crime. Often cited to emphasize the government's success fighting terrorism, the list that includes Nasser Abuali, Hussein Abuali and Rabi Ahmed is made up in large part of men caught up in the post-Sept. 11 dragnet that targeted Middle Easterners.

It also includes a Sudanese actor released after his name was mixed up with that of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, as well as four Jordanians convicted in an immigrant-marriage scam in Florida. Neither the actor nor the Jordanians were linked to terrorism. Their cases demonstrate how names put on the list can remain there for years, altering fates and damaging lives.

[Hobarticus]

4. Here's a couple: Randall Terry and Operation Rescue....

Sign 'em up for the terra list!

[atommom]

5. Why do I get the feeling that we're relying for our security on

people who couldn't even maintain an inventory of their own CD collection?

[shadowknows69]

6. bingo

[rainbow4321]

7. Yet they have animal welfare activists in court, facing jail time

So glad we have our priorities straight :sarcasm: :banghead:


http://cbsnewyork.com/njnews/NJ--AnimalExtremists-jn/resources_news_html

Six animal welfare activists carried out ``a campaign of thuggery and intimidation'' against people connected to a company that conducts research on animals, a prosecutor said Thursday at the opening of their trial on federal conspiracy charges.

In listing the names, addresses and other personal information about employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences and its business partners on a Web site dedicated to shutting the company down, ``their mission was to make these individuals' lives a living hell,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles McKenna said in his opening statement.

``What the defendants did went over the line, from a concern for animal welfare to a campaign of thuggery and intimidation,'' McKenna said.

The defendants face conspiracy and interstate stalking counts that carry maximum penalties of between three and five years, plus fines up to $250,000. They are the first people to be charged in New Jersey under the federal Animal Enterprise Protection Act, a 1992 law that wasing her opening statement and had to sit down. She said she would finish her opening when the trial resumes Monday, to be followed by lawyers for the other five individual defendants.

[jazzjunkysue]

9. It's missing one name: George Bush.

[Just Me]

10. kick

:kick:

[slackmaster]

11. Bad data in a government database? I am shocked, SHOCKED!

:argh: