I'm in a permanent FBI investigative database

[varwoche]

... along with a few million other US citizens.

If you're among the millions of Americans who took airline flights in the months before Sept. 11, 2001, the FBI probably knows about it -- and possibly where you stayed, whom you traveled with, what credit card you used and even whether you ordered a kosher meal.

The bureau is keeping 257.5 million records on people who flew on commercial airlines from June through September 2001 in its permanent investigative database, according to information obtained by a privacy group and made available to the Associated Press.

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We can all rest easy. Right?

 

[Jocko]

That's what you get for not reading all the fine print on the back of your ticket. Consider yourself lucky, they're entitled to take one of your kidneys if they feel like it.

I flew monthly for the year before 9/11, so I'm sure they all know my then-future-wife's favorite positions since I was always going to see her. Hell, all they had to do was ask. I love bragging about stuff like that.

 

[Magyar]

just keep listening to fox - after all they probably only took a few million from the bush admin to report the "news" - tell you how
America turning into a fascist-Theocracy is GOOD thing!

 

[Rob Lister]

... along with a few million other US citizens. article

We can all rest easy. Right?

Do you think they should not have obtained such data?

Do you think obtaining that data aided them in the investigation?

Having obtained such data, do you think they should now purge that data from their archives?

 

[varwoche]

Re: Re: I'm in a permanent FBI investigative database

Do you think they should not have obtained such data?

Do you think obtaining that data aided them in the investigation?

Having obtained such data, do you think they should now purge that data from their archives?

Not particularly.
Don't know.
I suppose, because I can't imagine it's of value at this point.