Here is some more food for thought: According to an internal audit released in September 2007 by the Justice Department, there were 700,000 names on the terrorism watch list, and that list was growing at an estimated 20,000 names/month. There were also serious flaws in the ways in which this information was sorted and updated, as well as in the ways in which people could A) get themselves removed from this list, and B) even find out if they are ON the list to being with.

See the report here: OIG Audit Report 07-41

For more links to public documents about such watch lists, see Watch Lists | American Civil Liberties Union