Very Disturbing Facts About The TSA (Homeland Security)

1. Common names like Robert Johnson, John Williams and David Nelson are on the Terrorist Watch List. The 9/11 hijackers, although all dead, remain on the Terrorist Watch List. Several members of the U.S. Congress, including Senator Edward Kennedy and Representatives John Lewis, Don Young and Loretta Sanchez all reported problems flying.

2. Approximately 1 million names are on the Terrorist Watch List.

3. Saddam Hussein remains on the Terrorist Watch List.

4. According to a report by the Government Accountability Office, from December 2003 through May 2007, the government had more than 53,000 official encounters with individuals on the Terrorist Watch List. However, “agencies reported arresting subjects of watch list records for various reasons hundreds of times, such as the individual having an outstanding arrest warrant or the individual’s behavior or actions during the encounter.”

5. The Terrorist Watch List does not contain the names of the most wanted terrorists as the TSA does not want to share that information with the airlines.

6. The U.S. government can seize your laptop, cell phone or PDA as you enter the U.S. and download all your private information—all without a warrant or probable cause.

7. The TSA is currently using see-through body scanning machines which are capable of projecting an image of a passenger's naked body like a virtual strip search, researching the creation of an "electro-muscular disruption" bracelet that would give airline personnel or air marshals the power to shock a person into submission and adding approximately 20,000 new names a month to the Terrorist Watch List.