US terror watchlists and surveillance grew tenfold to 47,000 under Obama

Evidence

In 2014, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain showed that the specific targets of National Security Agency surveillance were prominent Muslim Americans who had been put under surveillance despite there being no reasonable grounds for suspicion about criminal activity. Investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux demonstrated that the number of people on the National Counterterrorism Center’s no-fly list had increased tenfold to 47,000 in the Obama era. The leaked documents revealed that the center maintained a database of terrorism suspects worldwide, the “Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment.” In 2013, it had a million names, twice the number from four years prior. The database included more than 20,000 people within the United States who were disproportionately concentrated in Dearborn, Michigan, with its significant Arab American population. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 558

Categorization

• XREF: Underlines that surveillance growth continued and expanded under the Democratic administration, echoing my earlier note that Democrats in power extended the war-on-terror paradigm. — connects to: No-fly list grew tenfold to 47,000 people in the Obama era — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 558; U.S. terrorist screening lists hold roughly 100,000 to one million names — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 69

Broader Connections

• No-fly list grew tenfold to 47,000 people in the Obama era #corroborates (1.00) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 558
• U.S. terrorist screening lists hold roughly 100,000 to one million names #contradicts (0.72) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 69