Terrorist odometer or . . . Cast of thousands, cont'd

Following up on today's earlier post about the enormous -- staggering -- number of people who have been interrogated or otherwise intruded upon by the US government, the ACLU has a counter on their website reflecting the number of people listed on the Feds' terrorist watch list.

ACLU Watch List Counter

Why are there so many names on the U.S. government's terrorist list?

In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 - and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month.

At that rate, our list will have a million names on it by July. If there were really that many terrorists running around, we'd all be dead.  [Check it out.]

At this moment, the counter stands at 927,539.