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Flaws In New TSA Watch List

Thursday, 09 October 2008
Lawmakers have called on government intelligence authorities to correct flaws in the U.S. government terrorist-watch-list system after a congressional investigation found that the system is full of flaws and “on the verge of collapse,” according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. The database, built by Lockheed Martin Co. following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, was found to be seriously inadequate when tested According to the WSJ, “the new system failed to find matches for terrorist-suspect names that were spelled slightly different from the name entered into the system, a common challenge when translating names from Arabic to English.” The new system designed to replace it will lose significant data during the changeover, including information gleaned from suspect searches like phone and credit-card numbers. In a letter to Inspector General, Edward Rep. Brad Miller (D., N.C.) wrote that the current system “has been crippled by technical flaws” and the system designed to replace it, dubbed Railhead, “if actually deployed, will leave our country more vulnerable than the existing yet flawed system today.” The database includes an estimated 400,000 people and as many as 1 million names. The entire Wall Street Journal article is available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121937117186362585.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
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