FBI: 19,000 Matches to Terrorist Screening List in 2009

United States law enforcement agents and partners reported “encounters” with suspected terrorists 55,000 times in the last year; a check against the terrorist watchlist found a match 19,000 times, according to testimony presented to the Senate on Wednesday. The figure includes multiple hits on the same people, according to an FBI spokesman, who didn’t know how many unique individuals were counted in the 19,000 hits. The statistics appeared in testimony by the FBI’s Timothy Healy, director of the Terrorist Screening Center, or TSC, to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

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FBI: 19,000 Matches to Terrorist Screening List in 2009

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