I'm always inclined to think that whatever little bit comes out as news is only the tip of the iceberg. A better list to be released, and maybe wikileaks will get it eventually, would be the complete list of "persons of interest" (of all the varying degrees) that is on record with the American intelligence agencies. Of course there would be logistical problems with releasing such a list, which could hopefully be overcome in order to show us the scale and reasoning behind it without compromising anyones safety by releasing X amount (whether it's thousands, hundreds of thousands or more likely millions) of names on the internet. I think society would probably be shocked at how large it is, and how few of the people on it are "terrorists". Al Qaeda aren't planning attacks on Facebook. The protocols used by these people cannot be searched. I can't see any reason for the intelligence agencies to do this other than to keep tabs on "dissident" behaviour at home. I think, for them, dissident would include anyone who is a possible threat to their power (or likely to become part of a possible threat, like OWS).
That could be fringing on CT, but I think it is grounded enough in reality that it's ok.
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