Audit: Terror watchlist fails to flag some suspected terrorists

Carolyn Hileman* | September 13, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - A technical glitch is being blamed for the failure of a terror watch list database to include information on as many as 20 suspected terrorists. A Justice Department audit gives the FBI mixed reviews for its efforts to clean up the database, which contains more than 700,000 records about suspected terrorists. It was created after the 9/11 Commission called for a single agency to consolidate and manage 12 government watch lists that existed before the 2001 terror attacks. The audit found that problems persist. It faults two technology systems that feed into and from the master watch list that are not identical — as they should be — because they contain differing records. As a result, border agents and immigration officials weren’t alerted about some suspected terrorists.

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