The Ever-Expanding Terrorist Watch List

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"President Bush called upon every agency of government to provide his administration with the names of every so-called person of concern contained in their millions of files.

Those records included not just potential terrorists, but also deadbeat dads, people wanted by the federal Marshal, and Drug Enforcement Administration suspects, among others. But they all found themselves on what has come to be called the "terrorist watch list."

By June 2004, that list had swelled to 158,000 names. In May of this year, it clocked in at 755,000. Today, only five months later, it's at 860,000 and counting, according to the Government Accountability Office."

The Ever-Expanding Terrorist Watch List
 
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