A document titled “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” states that the US government uses “a secret process that requires neither ‘concrete facts’ nor ‘irrefutable evidence’ to designate someone as a terrorist.”
“In determining whether a REASONABLE SUSPICION exists, due weight should be given to the specific reasonable inferences that a NOMINATOR is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his/her experience and not on unfounded suspicions or hunches. Although irrefutable evidence or concrete facts are not necessary, to be reasonable, suspicion should be as clear and as fully developed as circumstances permit,” one excerpt reads.
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Federal Gov’t States It Doesn’t Need Fact To Declare You A Terrorist
“Instead of a watchlist limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,” states Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberty’s National Security Project.
So the government has built a ‘Minority Report’ type of system that can ‘foresee’ if you are going to commit an act of terror in the future.
This ‘system’ is just a means of finding excuses to do away with anyone they feel will oppose them – no facts needed, just scare them enough that you are an independent thinker and away you go.
According to an excerpt of the lengthy but unclassified document, the guideline was “developed to help standardize the watchlisting community’s nomination and screening process,” which federal agencies implement when encountering persons that officials may believe are linked to terroristic activity.
The document suggests that those officials have a wide breadth with regards to evaluating suspects, however, and that one White House official even has the power to unilaterally place “entire categories” of people onto lists that may bar those individuals from traveling by air. The Obama administration, the journalists claim, “quietly approved a substantial expansion” of the list last year, allowing more individuals to be targeted than before with less evidence than before.
Elsewhere, the document contains verbiage which reveals that individuals may be targeted by the feds and placed on such lists without the government relying on any evidence to support claims that those persons present a serious risk.
In another part of the document, the journalists write, “uncorroborated” social media postings are considered fair game when it comes to deciding whether or not to place a person on such a watchlist.
“Single source information,” the guidelines state, “including but not limited to ‘walk-in,’ ‘write-in,’ or postings on social media sites, however, should not automatically be discounted … the NOMINATING AGENCY should evaluate the credibility of the source, as well as the nature and specificity of the information, and nominate even if that source is uncorroborated.”
Furthermore, in other instances federal agents may elect to nominate someone to be placed on a watchlist due to the contents of their pockets at the time of being searched, according to the report, and specifically requests that “any cards with an electronic strip on it (hotel cards, grocery cards, gift cards, frequent flyer cards)” by analyzed by officials.
Responding to The Intercept ahead of Wednesday’s publication, Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberty’s National Security Project said that “Instead of a watchlist limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future.”
“On that dangerous theory, the government is secretly blacklisting people as suspected terrorists and giving them the impossible task of proving themselves innocent of a threat they haven’t carried out.” Shamsi said.“These criteria should never have been kept secret.”
And although the document is not classified as top-secret, US Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in an affidavit, according to The Intercept, that the Watchinglist Guidance “contains national security information that, if disclosed … could cause significant harm to national security.”
Source: rt.com
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They took oaths to defend and protect the constitution. The fact is they have become terrorists. We have our right to defend our constitution. It is still the law of our land.
because the government needs all means of secure to protect itself from citizens.
hey you yes you with the Homeland Security jacket on,you are not doing a very good bloody job,because there is 1000,s of the bastards still coming in,so get of your fat asses and get out these and stop them now.
What! ? Then do WE need Facts to Declare a Union of Militia to fight you back? What the (Bleep) r u even talking about .. Keep it up you pieces of Demon Breed Hypocrites and See what happens under God in this Nation of God! Keep it up!!!
You Foul Cowards Yes you Do Need Martial Proof or be a Victim Yourselves!! Keep it (Bleeep) up !!
Just as in HITLER’S time, they had the SS & the TRAVEL group … this administration has the DHS & the TSA … neither does anything to protect us, they do what the admin. tells them and they are not protecting us, they do tings like enforce the fact that a vehicle is violating the clean air act ??? Subsequently, they confiscate the vehicle and it gets worse … but why & how is this protecting any of us ??? Clean air … go to CHINA & enforce those regulations and see how you fare … you get the picture !!!
SCrewliberalDumbocrats! says:
“And those in Ferguson wanting a revolution.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/feds-dont-need-facts-declare-terrorist/comment-page-7/#comment-613865
And those in Ferguson wanting a revolution.
Read the protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Sound eerily familiar? DO YOUR HOMEWORK PEOPLE. WAKE UP! HATRED DOES NOT SPRING UP SPONTANEOUSLY! THERE IS CAUSE AND EFFECT.
I’d like them to try and for see God and his wrath on all this is unjust and corrupt.