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Who is the culprit behind the released US terrorist list?

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by Joseph Earnest August 6, 2014   

 

Newscast Media WASHINGTONA website has disclosed the number of people considered suspicious by the NSA's terrorism investigators. But who leaked the lists? It's unlikely that it was Edward Snowden, the usual suspect.

The world's most famous whistleblower is currently in Russia. He is not a Russian citizen, and he doesn't work for an intelligence agency that keeps its records in Cyrillic script. Edward Snowden is a US citizen and has been granted political asylum in Russia. The famed whistleblower's location is important to bear in mind for those trying to link him to the lists published on the investigative website "The Intercept". (pop-up)

"Edward Snowden can't even have had access to these lists," says Dagmar Pepping, US correspondent with German public broadcaster ARD. "When those secret documents were written, Edward Snowden was no longer working for the NSA."

CNN reported on Tuesday (May 8, 2014) that American government officials were aware of this fact and were already looking for a second leaker.

The disclosures published by "The Intercept," Schmidt-Eenbohm says, did not rank particularly high in terms of quality. He explains it's important to remember that the information on the lists published "was shared with an extremely high number of private companies, such as airlines, so that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have access to this document that's been labeled 'secret.'"

The files published by "The Intercept" on Tuesday prove that the US lists some 680,000 people as real or probable terrorists. Their names are found in the "Terrorist Screening Database" (TSDB). There's a second list with names of people who, according to US agencies, are believed to be within terrorists' social environments. The "Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment" (TIDE) is said to consist of as many as one million people.

The sheer amount of people considered terrorist suspects by the US has surprised many. But intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenbohm is more concerned about something else: "There are some 500,000 face photos, and more than 144,000 people are registered with their full biometric data, including iris scans, et cetera."

Some of that information also flows in from non-American intelligence agencies, reaching a scope, says Schmidt-Eenbohm, "where there are 240 new entries every day."

Finding yourself on one such intelligence agency's list can have serious consequences. "You will first be put on a 'no-fly list,'" he explains, "which means you can no longer enter the US." And eventually, he adds, "If you are considered a terrorist suspect, the intelligence agencies will use all available means to find out every little detail about your personality."

Erich Schmidt-Eenbohm says he believes the latest disclosures haven't provided much additional information. But journalist Dagmar Pepping notes Snowden's NSA revelations were also only published step by step, and she says there might be more to come. Add Comments>>

 

Source: Deutsche Welle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

  

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