Foreign Aid Groups Face terror Screens
WashPost | Turn your head and cough
The Bush administration plans to screen thousands of people who work with charities and nonprofit organizations that receive U.S. Agency for International Development funds to ensure they are not connected with individuals or groups associated with terrorism, according to a recent Federal Register notice.
The plan would require the organizations to give the government detailed information about key personnel, including phone numbers, birth dates and e-mail addresses. But the government plans to shroud its use of that information in secrecy and does not intend to tell groups deemed unacceptable why they are rejected.
I don't know what the criteria would but, but I for one would sure be suspicious of people who regularly chuttle back and forth between the terrorist hotbeds of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Just saying.
WashPost | Turn your head and cough
The Bush administration plans to screen thousands of people who work with charities and nonprofit organizations that receive U.S. Agency for International Development funds to ensure they are not connected with individuals or groups associated with terrorism, according to a recent Federal Register notice.
The plan would require the organizations to give the government detailed information about key personnel, including phone numbers, birth dates and e-mail addresses. But the government plans to shroud its use of that information in secrecy and does not intend to tell groups deemed unacceptable why they are rejected.
I don't know what the criteria would but, but I for one would sure be suspicious of people who regularly chuttle back and forth between the terrorist hotbeds of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Just saying.
