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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 5:30 pm
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Feds use Google to identify folks for "no-fly" list

Anyone else catch this story? Be careful what you post online:


Originally Posted by Washington Post
Frustrated, the State Department assigned a junior Foreign Service officer to find the names another way -- by using Google. Those with the most hits under search terms such as "Iran and nuclear," three officials said, became targets for international rebuke Friday when a sanctions resolution circulated at the United Nations.
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None of the 12 Iranians that the State Department eventually singled out for potential bans on international travel and business dealings is believed by the CIA to be directly connected to Iran's most suspicious nuclear activities.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121000959.html

OK, if you have to have a 'no-fly' list, there's a right way and a wrong way to go about creating it. It seems to me that using Google is one of the worst possible ways.

Kofi Annan may be right... we've given up our ideals in the name of "fighting terrorism".
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