War on Terror Watch: You are the Millionth (Suspected) Terrorist!

I'm hoping it's me, and I'm hoping there's a super-duper prize (which doesn't involve rendition, detention, and/or "enhanced interrogation"). From USA Today:

The government's terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, up 32% since 2007.

Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information and remove people cleared in investigations....

"We're continually trying to improve the quality of the information," says Timothy Edgar, a civil liberties officer at the intelligence director's office. "It's always going to be a work in progress."

Comments

[Craig Smith]

... because freedom's too precious to let just ANYbody run around using it.