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.
Click the link below for more information:
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
Photo: AFP Photo / Getty Images / John Moore
the only terrorists are in washington d.c., running the country
Declare me a terrorist and i will declare you traitor.
Judge, Jury and Executioner. It that what what our law enforcement come too??? What about the Constitution????? DHS is the top GESTATO THUG POLICE
Hell, all you got to do is watch them when they do it..gather the evidence and prosecute…to execute obama for treason ..he has done it 7 times..its not hard to see.just hard to get anyone motivated to do something about it…
Just another right the government is taking away. They already are trying to remove the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, and replacing freedom OF religion with freedom FROM religion. now, it seems they want to replace innocent until proven guilty with guilty until proven innocent – plus, instead of judgement by jury, judgement by mob rule seems be the order of the day!
You better.U want to break the Constitution , u are the terrorist not me. U will be treated as such.
What is it that makes these people Homeland Police ? What training do they get and how long? These people look and act more like thugs to me. God Help Us All.
that’s ok, at this point I believe the people have about had enough of this c**p.
I am surrounded by terrorist from my own government, in my own country, you know, land of the free, home of the slave. Obama policies in action using taxpayers money as a d***o, bend over………..NEXT!
True