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Terrorist watch lists shorter than previously reported

The federal government's terrorist watch lists are far shorter than have been reported, the secretary of homeland security said Wednesday.

Report: U.S. terror 'watch list' may be getting too long

A new government report says there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government's terrorist "watch list," raising concerns the list may be becoming too large.

With 300,000 names on list, terrorist center always on alert

About a hundred times a day, from anywhere in the world, a phone call comes in that sounds something like this: I think I've got a terrorist suspect here, can you check it out?

Justice Department report tells of flaws in terrorist watch list

Twenty known or suspected terrorists were not correctly listed on the government's consolidated watch list, preventing their records from being available to the nation's front-line screening agents, according to a U.S. Justice Department report.

Time.com: Report: IRS Poor At Fighting Terrorism

The IRS does a poor job in identifying tax-exempt groups that may have links to terrorists, according to a report released Friday

Terror database lists 200,000 names

The Terrorist Screening Center marked its second anniversary as keeper of the government's terrorist watch list Tuesday by disclosing it had received about 6,000 "positive hits" of known or suspected terrorists.

Flights axed 'due to mistaken IDs'

Mistaken identities led to last week's cancellation of three Air France flights from Paris to Los Angeles, with one of the suspicious names belonging to a child, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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