Who’s on America’s watchlist? Check out Obama’s SECRET terrorist-tracking system!

Washington: Around 6,80,000 people are caught up in America’s Terrorist Screening Database. According to the government documents obtained by The Intercept, half of the people on the US government’s database of terrorist suspects are not associated with any terrorist group. According to a report in The Intercept, “Of the 680,000 people caught up in the watchlist of ‘known or suspected terrorists’ that is shared with local law enforcement agencies, private contractors, and foreign governments—more than 40 percent are described by the government as having ‘no recognized terrorist group affiliation.’ That category—280,000 people—dwarfs the number of watchlisted people suspected of ties to al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah combined.”

The report said, “The documents, obtained from a source in the intelligence community, also reveal that the Obama Administration has presided over an unprecedented expansion of the terrorist screening system. Since taking office, Obama has boosted the number of people on the no fly list more than ten-fold, to an all-time high of 47,000—surpassing the number of people barred from flying under George W Bush. The classified documents were prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center, the lead agency for tracking individuals with suspected links to international terrorism. Stamped ‘SECRET’ and ‘NOFORN’ (indicating they are not to be shared with foreign governments), they offer the most complete numerical picture of the watchlisting system to date.” According to the report, “The second-highest concentration of people designated as “known or suspected terrorists” by the government is in Dearborn, Mich.—a city of 96,000 that has the largest percentage of Arab-American residents in the country. The government adds names to its databases, or adds information on existing subjects, at a rate of 900 records each day. The CIA uses a previously unknown program, code-named Hydra, to secretly access databases maintained by foreign countries and extract data to add to the watchlists.”