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”In the United States, you are supposed to be assumed innocent. But on the watch list, you may be assumed guilty, even after the court dismisses your case.” A statement issued by Ginger McCall, a lawyer at the Electronic Privacy Information Centre stands true in the face of the latest list of terrorists issued by the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigations has been allowed to include people on the terrorist list even if they have been cleared of all charges.
This has been disclosed by FBI under the Freedom of Information Act which also gives guidelines as to how people qualify for this list and how police officials are to react while dealing with these people. The 91 page long file mentions that, “If an individual is acquitted or charges are dismissed for a crime related to terrorism, the individual must still meet the reasonable suspicion standard in order to remain on, or be subsequently nominated to, the terrorist watch list.”
Presently, the list contains a total of 420,000 names, including about 8,000 Americans. About 16,000 people, including about 500 Americans, are barred from flying.
Timothy J. Healy, the director of the F.B.I.’s Terrorist Screening Center said, “There has been a lot of criticism about the watch list,” claiming that it is “haphazard,” he said. “But what this illustrates is that there is a very detailed process that the F.B.I. follows in terms of nominations of watch-listed people.”
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