Comment on Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informantparentComments−djf111yDo you have a source on the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list?I see a report from 2012 which cites 500 Americans, out of a total 21,000 (https://www.aclu.org/national-security/factsheet-aclus-chall...), and a report from 2014 which cites 47,000 total (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/05/watch-commande...), so I would assume the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list is at least double the figure you list.−anonbanker11yAccording to the end of CITIZENFOUR, 1.5 million Americans are on various stages of the federal terrorist watch list.−zo111yWow, those numbers are way larger than 500. Kind of makes my points above (your post's sibling) quite a fair bit more scary.
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Do you have a source on the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list?
I see a report from 2012 which cites 500 Americans, out of a total 21,000 (https://www.aclu.org/national-security/factsheet-aclus-chall...), and a report from 2014 which cites 47,000 total (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/05/watch-commande...), so I would assume the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list is at least double the figure you list.
According to the end of CITIZENFOUR, 1.5 million Americans are on various stages of the federal terrorist watch list.
Wow, those numbers are way larger than 500. Kind of makes my points above (your post's sibling) quite a fair bit more scary.