July 14, 2008...11:19 am

Land of the Free: Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names

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Maybe I’m one of those people with a hopelessly “9/10 mentality” but this just seems completely ridiculous to me.

“Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other ‘suspicious characters,’ with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have become trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with little hope of escape,” said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “Congress needs to fix it, the Terrorist Screening Center needs to fix it, or the next president needs to fix it, but it has to be done soon.”

Until recently, Nelson Mandella was on the list. Oy.

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