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Capitol Hill: Lieberman, Collins concerned `Terror Watchlist’ falls short
By Louis Chunovic, Senior Editor
Published November 5th, 2007
Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and ranking Republican committee member Susan Collins (R-ME) voiced concerns that the government’s terrorist watchlist is still plagued with vulnerabilities. The remarks came during hearings at which the senators released a Government Accountability Office report showing that the Department of Homeland Security has failed to develop a strategy and implementation plan to correct problems with the Transportation Security Administration’s
"No Fly" list. The senators urged greater list accuracy to improve screening procedures at airports and other ports of entry while giving citizens who have been incorrectly placed on that list the ability to seek redress.
A court case in Texas over public access to video tapes recorded by security cameras in a back hall of the Texas Capitol could set nationally applicable legal precedents affecting a broad range of
government surveillance activities. The case, brought by the muckraking journal,
Texas Observer, pits the state’s attorney general against the Department of Public Safety, over the latter’s use of public funds to pay private attorneys to block release of the tapes.
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