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USA-National Counterterrorism Center: Secret government rulebook for labelling you a terrorist

24 July 2014

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"The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept."

See: Secret government rulebook for labelling you a terrorist (The Intercept, link) and document: Rulebook (link)

See also: Hill surveillance reform: Time is not on its side (Politico, link)

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