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Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-wait-till-a-system-upgrade-mistake dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Denver Channel 7 News reports that federal air marshals are operating under a quota for reporting a minimum number of suspicious travelers which is resulting in innocent people being placed on a secret government watch list. From the article: 'These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR.'"

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  1. rights? by headonfire · · Score: 1, Troll

    We don't need no rights. Thank you for the illegal surveillance, "Homeland Security"!

    Fuck you.