Over forty percent of Terrorist Screening Database names lack any terror group affiliation.

Evidence

According to an article published in the Intercept, “Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database—a watchlist of ‘known or suspected terrorists’ that is shared with local law enforcement agencies, private contractors, and foreign governments—more than 40 percent are described by the government as having ‘no recognized terrorist group affiliation’” (Scahill and Devereaux 2014). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 15

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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• Over 40 percent of terrorist watchlist names have no terrorist group affiliation (similarity 0.95)
• The Terrorist Screening Database’s inclusion criteria are secret and skew toward Arab names (similarity 0.81)
• U.S. terrorist screening lists hold roughly 100,000 to one million names (similarity 0.80)