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Edited by Noah Shachtman | Contact

Traveling Americans Get Terrorism Score

Do you know your official terrorism score? U.S. Customs agents will with a new database system that uses algorithms to figure out which international travellers warrant closer search.

The system, announced in the Federal Register today, is called the Automated Targeting System, which will use the Treasury's watchlist (.pdf), data provided to it by the airlines, your I-94 form and other data sources to compute your terrorism risk when you cross the border.

Here's what I had to say over at 27B/6:

The data -- which includes all the information you give to an airline such as medical conditions, frequent flier number, special meal requests, home and email addresses, payment information and your travel agent's names -- will be held for up to 40 years. The data can be shared with any government agency or local law enforcement agency for civil or criminal matters, and can even be shared with foreign governments as data to test other data-mining programs, even ones not related to border security.

What happens if you have a name that's similar to a suspected terrorist or drug smuggler? Conceivably, you could have your car torn apart every time you drive to Canada or have a blue-gloved agent checking your anus for dope every time you go to Cancun.

But surely, you'll be able to remedy such mistakes using the Privacy Act, which prevents secret databases? Actually, no.

Full story and links to other bloggers here.

Hat Tip: JQP

On another note: This post concludes my week-long takeover of DefenseTech. Thanks for humoring me over here at Noah's house. It's been quite fun and I'm jealous of his great readers, tippers and commenters. He'll return soon, but feel free to stop by my blog-house occasionally.

- Ryan Singel

Latest Comments

It is better to push for change rather than sitting around bitching through a computer screen. If you don't like it, act on it. Get out there and tell your family, friends and neighbors what you think. Educate them on events they might not be aware of.
Personally I am not thrilled with the airlines profiling everyone as a terroris. The x-ray machines they are now implementing will help them see what you are carrying but cannot tell your intentions.
I am refusing to fly until things change. I will take the train or drive to my destinations. My family agrees with me and is following suit along with my friends.
Spread the word.
Take action.
Actions speak louder than words.
Don't pay money to be man handled at airports and searched like a prisoner.
God bless America. It's time we take her back and stand up for what is right.

Posted by: Tommy W. at December 3, 2006 1:41 AM


Great run, Ryan! Hope we see you here again soon.

Posted by: Haninah at November 4, 2006 4:21 PM


@Sreven: Best. Troll. EVAR!

Posted by: Alex at November 4, 2006 1:17 PM


Good news! I'm not on the Treasury watch list (yet) ...

The government is simply cementing rules they have followed for a long time. It's only announcement of the procudures that is new, they have been in place and acted upon upon for some time now. Adolf could have taken lessons from these guys ...

fornicating weasils?

Posted by: Noah (the other one) at November 4, 2006 12:11 PM


If we voted for Steven V. Schofer and Pete Wilson for president and V P in 2008 we would be obligated to deport nearly 20 million or more illegal intruders who are set up by looters associations, to take over a United States Secretary of State. George Bush obviously thinks the star elder advisor and chief telepath's don't mean a thing; he is Guilty of treason which is an ugly word from the mouths of children to run.

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A christian and Catholic America's and Europe shall be charged in a corruption and racketeering Ponzi scheme until Hannan Ashwari feels the contributions will be genuine and a Depositary Trust and guarantor of the road mapper shall be a United States and the Vatican.

The Israeli government demonstrated its juvenile and belligerent weigh stations and the Israeli's treat the land locked Gaza escrow and peoples like drek pesedane.

This is because their leaders are also enzyme sepulchers Doctors of forensic pathology. They must be replaced by post graduate non enzyme sepulchers at once to save all.

Although it is a Christ who still calls on a said commander in chief to take out all Iranian nuclear facilities while you can do so queer alki scums, and tell the Iranians enzyme sepulcher, we over here in star base installations abroad sided firstly that you inquire 'bouts the questions pertaining to the obvious mushroom magic:

Are you in contact with Extra Terrestrials Mr. President's, and would you show us a way to clarify their points of view regarding thither charges of I articulate it sold though, Gross Treaty violation and wilful and deliberate incitement of an insurrection.

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To this date not a man has come forward to vogue for Steven V. Schofer, protector of your world's. He is a republican that promises to use and not hide the family heirlooms we request at prayer service General. And the same is for the use of4 foot tall or largerindigenous being capsule I work under Ponzi racketeering schemer Shimon Peres, who incidentaly declined the sheriff's advice to employ the star board prodigy in 1997 theretellus never Howie did, good boy.

In the long and short of many, he is to resort for suing the U S seek: http://facesoflove4ever.blogspot.com so far not a Jury could be sold for keepsakes of Las Vegas follies and degenerates outrages in personal data I've stored to miss match your secrets assailants answers. The Jurors as follows:

Why are I a Christ Father's? and Chief Telepath I said phonies. I spake, we are, we are:

Why fore not sue for a mere 2 million dollars, as follows:
(a) Malicious confinement,
(b) medical mal practice,
(c) falsifying a medical report, falsifying a condition to punish the tax payers for unnecessary expenses such as prescriptions and incarceration fees,
(d) imposing psycho therapy as a Ponzi scheme; psych therapy fees. against Dr. Gary Delewski who perjured himself in order to profit set as a racketeering charge,.
(e) Sue Westminster mental Health for seizing me and locking me up for weeks on in; ruining my military career as a teleparh for Northrop El Tejon Facility in it's capacity the Base government issue salary for that position is $165,000 per annularly increments, twelve years lost pay equals 1.98 million dollars.
(f) sue for the potential back loss of wages such as the question invites
(g) sue for defaming my moral fortitude and character associated with making phone calls to bring this divine intervention to light and in doing so libeled my health and human behavior identity for when it was time to consider opting for a telepath station,

(h) sue for forcibly medicating us for years on in with Zyprexa, a recalled antidote on a Rico Claims civil suits nationwide and causing temporary insanity, blindness, and heart attack and cardiac arrest frequent that I still suffer from,

A behavioral sciences professional is suppose to know what is right and proper in the sight of our Lords and what is lewd or improper or characterized as schizoid, bipolar, manic depressive and is legally bound to testify to a recollection of ours thatwhere an act of God appears, not to be amused, confused or conspire in cover ups conspiracy pro I got not with your ending notices suchly invited onwardly..
(i) suing for getting us dependent on the medications they prescribed, for when I opt to not dose at bedtimes, I can not fall asleep and I go into a state of shock at sleeping hours and it almost kills us if we go several days without the said medications I am accustomed to, forensic evaluators.

Yes one can said I was going to dream of mountains and entertain a peace process with sending delegates at odds with one another's ambiguity's and use our Christ like graces when I communicated with star elder personage to arbitrate such said disputes without dangerous and illegal weapons being used such as the Israeli Prime Ministers mistaken identity's. I'll say this position, like many of the DoD D C-Pentagon jobs pays quite a large salary,.

(j) Orange County Mental Health defamed our character references so that when Naval Investigators did their prank they could attest that the report(s) on Steven were that of a 5150 so we had to let him go.

The point of the matters is when you go too http://facesoflove4ever.blogspot.com as with the videos I produced and distributed,; do you see what I explained were, topographical contorting faces on a map, otherwise known as the Holy Ghost in Catholic literature, or also the infrared eye of Burkina Faso, or the apparition(s), or the Image that I breathed life into and on C D's I can produce for televised comparisons?.

Thenthat some captives locked away in the health detention units attested they could see the image in 1997 and the nurses just shook their heads and didn't summon for a forensic ophthalmologist nor a Dr. to have a stare. I felt like the U S was the Anti'-christ as I still do pending settlement of our disputes resolutions..

Now the reasons why no grand jury nor competent jury could be found is because we, said telepathically stated it by 1996 as follows:
(a) No dog ownerships nor feline animals for friends,
(b) no tattoo's, no sodomy nor Gomorrah oral nor anal sex practices,
(c) show recourse or remorse for any of your dishonest actions in your past,
(d) covering up the faces are acceptable,
(e) stop going to amusement parks at once,
(f) no gambling, have a non-partisan point of view as far as winning is concerned in any sporting activities;
(g) never use heroin or needles, obey the laws,
(h) do not worship idols or magicians over a Lord,
(i) try to drink red wine with your meals instead of beer or other also emphasized inebriations,
(j) fornicate with man on top and no doggie style positions;
(k) do not lie about this admonition
(l) like boy kins, girl kin are to be circumcised slightly soon after birth Surgeon General's state same times after,
(m) partake of the flour meal as your main sustenance's and stay away from pork and shellfish; try to teach the next generation to be vegetarians;
(n) read the Bible through and through if you could one time in your life and comprehend a Ten Commandments, obey and respect your mother and father, sowardly no jury can be trusted if three jurists have tattoo's and two jurists did it with a dog animal as they still fool; many are secret homicide attackers from their youth in disguises, or male and female rapists, when they were younger;

(o) do not fornicate with children weasils; for like the masses, odds are in that a jury would be gay or unchaste from these pleasures they took up. Are you some of the above mentioned heretold? Will you nay say a side when it comes time for us to cry, wail, moan, lose lives Father?

Posted by: Sreven V. Schofer at November 3, 2006 9:25 PM


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