Yale Law School clinic, ACLU question growth of domestic 'watchlist'

http://www.nhregister.com/government-and-politics/20160418/yale-law-school-clinic-aclu-question-growth-of-domestic-watchlist


https://www.scribd.com/doc/309637277/Wirac-9-11-Clinic-Trapped-in-a-Black-Box


An analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union and a clinic at the Yale Law School describes exponential growth in the number of persons on a domestic intelligence watchlist based on secret evidence.


In the report, “Trapped in a Black Box: Growing Terrorist Watchlisting in Everyday Policing,” the two groups view the expansion as a threat to constitutional and privacy rights.


From less than 10,000 entries in 2003 as part of the Violent Gangs and Terrorist Organizations File, the watchlist had ballooned to 272,198 individuals by 2008 under a successor category, the Known or Suspected Terrorist File.


The report, which reviewed 13,000 pages of information, suspects those numbers have increased since then.