Source: Targeted Justice Website

FBI Agents in the Elhady v. Kable case admitted that they were unaware of a single act of terrorism halted due to the TSDB.

DHS Customs and Border Protection admitted that it has never publicly identified an act of terrorism that the TSDB helped prevent.

So why does the U.S. government continue to use a list that has failed its only purpose?

According to the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) “Redress Operating Procedures Manual,” the TSDB is a sensitive but unclassified database and does not contain any derogatory information.

The FBI’s reckless approval of nominations to the TSDB results in the inclusion of an estimated 98.9% of the people nominated to it. They reject only 1% of the nominations – Does that sound like a verification process?

Former Deputy FBI Director Timothy P. Groh stated under penalty of perjury that there were approximately 1.16 million persons in the TSDB and that only approximately 0.5% (fewer than 5,000) of those were US persons. Let’s see if the numbers add up?

Under penalty of perjury in the Elhady case, the FBI submitted the table below. When subtracting the ‘additions’ and ‘rejections’ to the number of nominations, there is a large number that remains unaccounted for. Where did they go?

Terrorist Screening Center Database (TSDB)

The contradictions between official government sources regarding the TSDB’s records are obvious. And the numbers do not add up.

The Department of Justice’s Office of The Inspector General’s, May 2009 Audit Report 09-25 “The Federal Bureau Of Investigation’s Terrorist TSDB Nomination Practices” found that 35% of the nominations to the lists were outdated, many people were not removed in a timely manner, and tens of thousands of names were placed on the list without an adequate factual basis.

If you were a Judge, would you allow this list to continue violating U.S. citizens Constitutional Rights?

Ref: Elhady v. Piehota, 303 F. Supp.3d 453 (2017)

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