Reply #133: Not a list of suspects, certainly not suspects in the usual sense

[Euromutt]

The Selectee (aka "watch") List and the No Fly List contain only names, with no further identifying information. The list, to name but one example, contains the name "Robert Johnson." At least 13 people with that name have been obstructed from boarding commercial flights, even though at least 12 of them aren't the "Robert Johnson" who's notionally a "suspected terrorist." Or possibly a suspected alias of a "suspected terrorist."

Note, moreover, that in regular criminal justice procedure, a "suspect" is someone who is suspected of having committed a crime of which it has been established that it actually happened. There is no such as thing as a criminal suspect in a crime that has not yet taken place, and maybe never will take place. That, however, is exactly what "suspected terrorists" are suspected of.