TSA: Myth Buster: TSA’s Watch List is More Than One Million People Strong

In response to an ACLU news conference alleging that the TSA maintains a Watchlist of over a million names, TSA publishes a blog post disputing ACLU’s claims:

“First, TSA doesn’t have a watch list. TSA is a customer of the Terrorist Screening Center, a component of the FBI that is responsible for maintaining the consolidated terrorist watch list. The center has said publicly that there are less than 400,000 individuals on the overall consolidated watch list, 95 percent of whom are not U.S. persons and the vast majority of whom are not even in the U.S.”