U.S. Still Lacks Consolidated Terror Watch List
Federal Computer Week reports that the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center has yet to create a single, unified database comprising the dozen terror watch lists created by various government agencies, missing the December 1, 2003 deadline to complete the task.
See also Terror Watch List Buried in Bureaucratic Mess, which states that according to Rep. Jim Turner, a member of the Select Committee on Homeland Security, that "...without a comprehensive list of terror suspects, a whole raft of other anti-terror initiatives - - like the border screening program called U.S.-VISIT and the passenger threat rating system known as CAPPS II - would be greatly limited in their effectiveness."
