Terror screening leads to few arrests
David Sobel, senior counsel with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy organization, said the numbers "suggest a staggeringly high rate of false positives with respect to the identification of supposed terrorists."
"This really confirms the long-standing fear that this list is inaccurate and ultimately ineffective as an antiterrorism tool," he said.
But Jayson Ahern, deputy commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said focusing on arrests misses "a much larger universe" of suspicious U.S. citizens.
"There are many potentially dangerous individuals who fly beneath the radar of enforceable actions and who are every bit as sinister as those we intercept," he said.
Yeah, you really gotta watch those dangerous and sinister people who don't break the law.
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Posted by LWHoll | August 27, 2007 10:52 PM
Posted on August 27, 2007 22:52