The US terrorist watch list
samedi 26 juillet 2014 à 14:00The US terrorist watch list now has over a million names, and the White House can add people to it wholesale.
The definition of "terrorism" is so broad and weak that the list could be full of people who were never even suspected of terrorism, only of "terrorism".
These different watchlists and their different uses raise different issues. The no-fly list is punishment without trial, and could only be sustained in the US by tying the Constitution into a pretzel. (Sad to say, the Supreme Court is full of judges willing to do that.)
Asking a foreign country to torture someone is a grave crime, which by the way Obama pretends the US has stopped doing.
Making a note to scrutinize a particular person more in ways that don't require probable cause may be legitimate.