This week’s question concerns a new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that claims the governmentÃs terrorist watch list now contains more than 755,000 names. The list, which was created after 9/11 to help government agents prevent terrorists from entering the country, has been growing at a rate of 200,000 names per year since 2004. In that time only about 53,000 people on the list have been questioned, and it is not known how many were actually denied entry into the country. Some lawmakers and security experts now feel the list is too large to be of any practical use. What do you think? Is it time to abandon the terrorist watch list and find another means of screening for terrorists?
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