We're All Mad Here--One in 300 On Terror Watch List

Watch your back, people, because there are over a million Americans who may just be terrorists (h/t Majikthise):

The nation’s terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon the government’s own reported numbers for the size of the list.

Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other `suspicious characters,’ with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have become trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with little hope of escape,” said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “Congress needs to fix it, the Terrorist Screening Center needs to fix it, or the next president needs to fix it, but it has to be done soon.”

Fredrickson and Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program, spoke today along with two victims of the watch list: Jim Robinson, former assistant attorney general for the Civil Division who flies frequently and is often delayed for hours despite possessing a governmental security clearance and Akif Rahman, an American citizen who has been detained and interrogated extensively at the U.S.-Canada border when traveling for business.

After Gozar Keeper of the Terror List gets a load of the cover of the new The New Yorker, we're going to have the next President on the damn list.

By the way something, this person and her kid, who is elementary school, would up on the list, but it was no surprise because when they went online to try to print out their boarding pass in advance, they got this message: