Report: US Terror Watchlist Reaches 2M People

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The Spin

Left narrative

Numerous Americans have been wrongfully added to the terror watchlist due to the TSD's inherent racial biases, causing them reputational damage and hindering their ability to travel freely or find a job. One Air Force veteran, Saadiq Long, who has no criminal record, was pulled over three times in just over a month due to his Muslim name being in a gang member database connected to TSD. People like him not only struggle to fly or find jobs but also have to deal with cops pulling them over on a routine basis simply due to how their name is spelled.

Right narrative

The terror watchlist is certainly flawed, but not for the reasons the liberal media would tell you. The real issue at hand is that the FBI continually flags actual criminals, investigates them, and then lets them loose to commit their crimes. This happened in 2016 after Omar Mateen, the Orlando, Fl., mass shooter who was investigated two times before being let loose into the public to freely purchase weapons. Mateen had been on the list but was taken off for murky reasons.


Political split

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