9/11 Responders To Be Warned They Will Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List

[one_voice]

WASHINGTON -- A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned.


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The provision was added in an amendment by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) during the heated debate over the bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee last May.

Sept. 11 responders in the committee room at the time mostly shook their heads at the move, which Democrats accepted on a voice vote after battling to bar other amendments on abortion and immigration that might have killed the bill.


As doctors and administrators begin acting on the federal instructions, participants in the 9/11 treatment and monitoring programs will soon be told that their names, places of birth, addresses, government ID numbers and other personal data will be provided to the FBI to ensure they are not terrorists.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/911-responders-screened-for-terror-ties_n_852198.html

[midnight]

1. What on earth on does 9-11 treatment and monitoring programs have to do with

supplying their data to the FBI to make sure they are not terrorists... I'm not sure what this is about.

[NYC_SKP]

3. It is silly. It says that a person who is on the no-fly list cannot be qualified as a WTC responder

As if any of the responders are actually on the list.

It's just a piss ant stupid ass PITA republican asswipe obstructionist thing to do.

:puke:

[JHB]

11. You never know, considering how fast and loose they got with those lists...

The Bush administration didn't exactly constrain itself, especially when it came to critics.

A report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation for lying and spying on anti-war activists, animal-rights groups, and environmentalists, calling the improper “terror” investigations "unreasonable and inconsistent with FBI policy."

Among those targeted were the anti-war Thomas Merton Center, the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers), the Catholic Worker, Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and an individual Quaker peace activist. According to the Inspector General, there was "little or no basis" for the investigations.

The phony probes resulted in innocent people being placed on the infamous “terror watch list” and in FBI boss Robert Muller providing "inaccurate and misleading information" to Congress, the report stated. The amount of tax money wasted, while not specifically addressed in the report, must have been enormous. Numerous policies were also violated by the FBI, and Inspector General Glenn Fine called the FBI's tactics “troubling.”

The Inspector General’s office reviewed 8,000 pages of FBI documents from 2001 to 2006 related to the groups to determine whether the investigations were proper, were initiated owing to protected First Amendment activities, and for several other purposes. “From this broad review we identified particular FBI investigations and other activities that potentially implicated the First Amendment activities of the groups or their members,” explained the report, entitled "A Review of the FBI's Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocacy Groups."

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http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4667-feds-slammed-for-spying-on-anti-war-groups-lying

[Canuckistanian]

5. You and me both n/t

[MedleyMisty]

2. Our government disgusts me

It has no honor and no morality and nothing human about it. It is not sane. It is not fit to govern.

[emilyg]

4. Amen.

[RagAss]

6. What the fuck is next? I really can't see this downward spiral going on much longer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Why do Republican hate WTC first-responders?

I hope that they all hoist the Republicans on their own petards over this, particularly since the Republicans waved their bloody shirts and used the tragedy of 9/11 for political purposes the entire time Bush/Cheney were in the WH. I know I would had I been a WTC first responder and now subject to investigation of being a potential terrorist. :puke:

[DCKit]

8. And why did the Democrats go along with it?

Shameful and disgusting.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. I hope it's only because they just wanted to get it passed

This provision needs to be removed IMHO.

[Newsjock]

9. Pardon my lack of eloquence

But FUCK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Will this finally be what it takes to get a compliant news media to stop coddling this group of millionaire terrorist thugs who are destroying our nation from within?

[crickets]

10. It boggles the mind.

Everyone is now treated as a criminal or terrorist. Everyone, everyone is guilty before being proven innocent. Unbelievable. This joke of a law turns some of our basic tenets upside down, and in these budget conscious times, how can Congress justify the money involved in suspecting every single citizen of being a terrorist?

[gkhouston]

13. Maybe they think it's cheaper to "suspect" the responders than compensate them.

And if it has the effect of scaring some sheeple, so much the better.