Summary
The FBI's Web site describes the Terrorist Screening Center as an anxious place, full of serious faces-like you see at NASA's Mission Control right before a launch. The TSC was established to consolidate the dozens of so-called terrorist watch lists that proliferated across government before and immediately after the Sep 11 attacks. The agencies with a stake in the list all had their own way of handling information, and each had different ideas about names they wanted to add. The consolidated watch list is, in its own right, a legitimate bureaucratic success. But how it was built and how it is maintained lets you in on one of the hard realities about sharing intelligence and hunting for terrorists: Mistakes are unavoidable.
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The FBI's Web site describes the Terrorist Screening Center as an "anxious" place, full of "serious faces-like you see at NASA's Mission Control right before a launch." The TSC is essentially a ca...
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