Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:49:53 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

The Denver Channel - Do anything that separates you from the crowd, and a federal air marshall may enter your name in the watch list just to meet his quota. [clairefiles]

The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.

"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal.
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These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to maintain this potentially dangerous quota system.

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