1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list

"During a 12-month period ended in March this year, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list." These 1,600 people qualify because they have raised a "'reasonable suspicion,' according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in September and made public last week. "

Although some may think that each of these 1,600 names that qualify each day are 1,600 different people, they are wrong. The 1,600 people include "an alias or name variant for a previously watchlisted person."

Here are some interesting facts about the FBI's terrorist watch list:

"The ever-churning list is said to contain more than 400,000 unique names and over 1 million entries. The committee was told that over that same period, officials asked each day that 600 names be removed and 4,800 records be modified. Fewer than 5 percent of the people on the list are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. Nine percent of those on the terrorism list, the FBI said, are also on the government's 'no fly' list.... "Regardless of the reporting source, FBI policy requires that each threat or suspicious incident should receive some level of review and assessment to determine the potential nexus to terrorism," the audit said.

I liked this article because I never knew that there were 1,600 people daily that qualify for the FBI's terrorist watch list. I also liked this article because I like to learn about things that are happening in the Bureau and how they do things (sort the list, get rid of certain names, add others...).