“I Have Never Seen Anything As Egregious"...

US Gov’t Terror Ratings Draw Outrage..… US, Foreign Governments Can See Profile But Not You…Profiles Include Billing Information, Travel Agent, Email Address….. Phoenix Airport Also Testing X-Ray Screening…..

Associated Press MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN December 2, 2006 09:39 AM

A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from an unmarked, two-story brick building in Northern Virginia.

Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record) of Vermont pledged greater scrutiny of such government database-mining projects after reading that during the past four years millions of Americans have been evaluated without their knowledge to assess the risks that they are terrorists or criminals.

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