By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
It may not be so easy to get off the terrorist watch list, the New York Times has found.
The paper reported that the FBI is allowed to include people on the list who have been acquitted of terrorism related crimes or the crimes have been dismissed.
The discovery comes after the Times obtained files released by the F.B.I. under the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents, the Times writes, “disclose how the police are instructed to react if they encounter a person on the list. They lay out, for the first time in public view, the legal standard that national security officials must meet in order to add a name to the list. And they shed new light on how names are vetted for possible removal from the list.”
The Times reported that database has about 420,000 names, including about 8,000 Americans.
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