Homeland Security Blacklist to be Available to Private Companies

[DBoon]

From Slashdot:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/26/204249&mode=nested&tid=103&tid=158&tid=99

Based on an article in the Washington Times (yes I know RW rag):

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040326-124121-1245r.htm

Obligatory Quote:

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are developing a database that will allow private companies to submit lists of individuals to be screened for a connection to terrorism, the FBI Terrorist Screening Center Director Donna A. Bucella told legislators yesterday.
The database "will eventually allow private-sector entities, such as operators of critical infrastructure facilities or organizers of large events, to submit a list of persons associated with those events to the U.S. government to be screened for any nexus to terrorism," Miss Bucella said at a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and Homeland Security subcommittees.

I hope this isn't true, I don't want to move to Costa Rica quite yet

[murielm99]

1. Just like the McCarthy era.

[OneBlueSky]

2. yeah, they used to call them blacklists . . .

sounds like they're about to make a return . . .

we really MUST win in November . . .

I mean, really! . . .