Update: Homeland Security Dept. Now Claims Israel Was Erroneously Included on Terror List
- Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:34am by
Billy Hallowell
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Last week, The Blaze reported on Israel’s placement on a terror watch list assembled by the United States government. Now, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged that this selection was made based on “inaccurate information.” According to John Morton, who serves as the director of the department’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, Israel, a key U.S. ally, was erroneously placed on the DHS list. The nation‘s surprise inclusion appeared in a May 2011 report from ICE’s inspector general. JTA has more:
“The addition of Israel in the OIG’s list of ICE‘s ’Third-Agency Checks’ (TAC) was based on inaccurate information provided to the OIG during the course of its audit,” Morton said in a statement sent by e-mail to JTA.
“The U.S. does not and never has considered Israel to have links to terrorism, but rather they are a partner in our efforts to combat global terrorism. The United States maintains close intelligence-sharing relationships with Israel in order to address security issues within its own borders and in our mutual pursuit of safety and security around the globe.”
This list, which includes 36 nations, does not target government policies as the catalyst for inclusion. Rather, it looks at the likelihood that a traveler from a specific country might have terrorist ties. If a traveler from one of the listed nations is detained, that country’s presence on the list will spawn a special check by ICE (called a Third Agency Check or TAC).
Last week, CNS News first reported about Israel’s inclusion on this list and further explained the purpose of the TAC screening:
“In addition to the Terrorist Watchlist screening, ICE uses a Third Agency Check (TAC) to screen aliens from specially designated countries (SDCs) that have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members,” says the inspector general’s report.
Interestingly, when previously asked by CNS News to clarify who put Israel on the list or when the nation was added, ICE declined. But, one spokesperson claims that the list was created seven years ago and that ICE did not choose the nations for inclusion. This, if true, would mean that it was created during the presidency of George W. Bush. Below, see the list that is presented (including Israel) in the inspector general’s report:
With one spokesperson declining to explain how Israel made its way onto the list and with the director of ICE later contending that the inclusion was an error, the situation is certainly intriguing. One wonders if Israel was purposefully included, but then removed due to fear over the public’s reaction to such a designation. Either way, Israeli citizens who are detained no longer qualify for special TAC searches.
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Comments (126)
His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:16amImpalement…NOW!
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:14amMaobama MUST be impaled on the south lawn in public. He is a traitor.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:14amLooks like FAT UGLY MAN-FACED Janet got caught again.
She is doing this job because she is capable?
LoL
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:13amhttp://beforeitsnews.com/story/790/582/Why_Do_the_Police_Have_Tanks_The_Strange_and_Dangerous_Militarization_of_the_US_Police_Force.html
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:13amWe have met the enemy and they is us (i.e., Obama and his cast of commie traitors). Lord, 2012 cannot get here fast enough…
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:10am@ futrated
when you hire a employee that you trusted and and after years he is found to be killing your livestock , stealing your money and resources …….it is not your fault it is his …what we need to do is hold them accountable for the crimes they commited and still commiting ( civil and criminal courts ) IT WILL be our fault if , upon this discovery of this informatio, we now do nothing . But I dont think that can should hold these people blameless. …anyway it is not that important ….it is important that the future is altered to serve the interests of AMERICANS .. take care ffustrated ..watch your back
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:09amAnd they happen to apologize just as polls show the Jewish community voters are backing away from Obama. Yeah, right.
Report Post »ginpa
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:05amWanna bet that an embedded Muslim help populate this list? Love when they get caught.
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:56am@Texas Grasshopper, I have to disagree. It is our fault. We put these people into power. We were happy to sit back as long as we were kept happy. Now we are waking up and realizing what has happened. It may not be too late to correct but its going to take people of character in Washington to do it and its our job to find and put them there.
Report Post »jihadazzkicker
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:54amDo you feel safe yet…these gobment hacks can not get something as simple as a LIST right. Typical gobment agency.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:54amThe man behind the teleprompter runs the world
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:18amNo the “Puppet Master” runs the world.
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:54amHomeland Security doesn’t look at their own list? Well, if they can’t find any illegals, anywhere in our country, can’t find the guns that the DOJ and the ATF gave to our enemies, then what the hell is Janet Napolitano doing? How do they wipe what they can’t find?
Report Post »Founding Dad
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:54amThere are just too many similar errors coming out of this administration for them to be “mistakes”. Wake up American, they are completely intentional and all they have to do is say is was a mistake and all is forgiven.
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:53amDHW320
Report Post »Apology. I should have read all the posts. Didn’t mean to be a copy cat.
Founding Dad
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:53amTHIS WAS NO MISTAKE. As I said before, the lie has been said and put out there for the world to see, and then a week or so later, they apologize for a “slip up” or “internal error” or “computer glitch” or whatever. That is part of their plan. The federal government AND the main stream “lame stream” media do the same thing. Lie, cause injury, let it fester for a week or two, and then when the complaining gets too loud and they have to respond, just issue an apology and move on to their next lie and distortion. This is happening on a regular basis folks. It’s what they do!
Report Post »OleTom
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:52amGod help this country if we let obummer turn his back on our Dearest Friends in Israel with out making a stand for them The left knows not what they are doing.Obumma is trying to destroy this country. What will it take to wake up the American People
Report Post »http://our-motivation.co.cc/Utube/ob.php
Kerri g
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:45amOletom: America is awake, we just don’t know what to do about all of it. We obviously can’t count of our Representatives, they no longer represent us. We vote, we blog, we write to our Congressman and Senators, we march, we gather, we complain, we petition. WE THE PEOPLE HAVE NO POWER. Our govt. is taking us into slavery why do you think they are trying to take away our weapons? I’m waiting for someone to come up with a way to fight back.
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:51amagian everything they can do to foster distrust of the goverement . check out the histories of major civil unrest …..the period before major upheavals in almost every culture has been preceeded by times like these …………….did anybody EVER think the ATF , FBI , and DOJ would deliberately sell weopons to Organized crime of neighbing Coun tries so they can be brought into this America and kill our own Citizens ? Cameras everywhere , police taking down speakers at town halls metting in DC and AZ . FDA raids on Amish , Feds telling you to put mercury filled lightbulbs in your house ( and pay more) , outlawing God and Prayers at Funerals, spending and taxing us into oblivion …on and on and on and on …..Folks it is NOT our fault it is the Policticians fault ..they have betrayed us !!! It WAS there job to protect our interests …it was THIER wtach !!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:48amThis was no mistake, neither was the release of the report; it is being corrected, to use a wrong term here for their perspective, only due to the utter backlash against them and the POTUS by the people of America…look for the backdoor adding of them to the list once again.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:02am“…one spokesperson claims that the list was created seven years ago and that ICE did not choose the nations for inclusion. This, if true, would mean that it was created during the presidency of George W. Bush….”
Of course. The old “It wasn’t me, it was Bush” excuse.
Report Post »OR
If it was created 7 years ago, ICE certainly isn’t keeping their “records” up to date as well as they should. Heck, I update my address book every year.
nysparkie
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:48amOOOPs, Did I do that?
Report Post »notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:46amIt was on the teleprompter – so it must be so.
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:43amMan that p*sses me off. Mistake my a$$.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:43amError my a**. You just got caught displying your criminal administration’s true beliefs…Just sayin’
Report Post »AmericanSubject
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:36amThis administration is TOTALLY CORRUPT and guilty of murdering american citizens, Law Enforcement Agents and Lord knows what other devilry!
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:41amI can hear Obama doing his Erkel voice now about putting Israel on the list… Ooops… did I do that?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:59amIt may have been created by Bush, but it’s been updated a few times since then. Always playing the blame game, these spineless amoeba never confess to anything wrong. Doesn’t matter who is on the list, they get a pass, wink, and a nod by the TSA.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:40amRight! Sure it was a mistake until they got caught. What an embarrassment this administration is to this country.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:53amI agree…its unbelievable. Every day I say “they did what?” We are heading toward a civil war I promise you. They are about to drop a big bombshell using the UN SMALL ARMS TREATY. They are so clueless to believe everyday, hardworking, taxpaying American’s will turn in their firearms. It not be pretty.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:39amAt the same time, Obama is trying to get a group from the Jewish community to hit the campaign trail for him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn__rVWG65A
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:41amDirty little secret…they are still on the WATCH list with this Adminsitration. MARK IT DOWN!
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:43amMBA
True…they are an embarrasment, but when WE THE PEOPLE just roll over and there is no one who wants to lead (because they are scared) on our side, the other side will continue to march on by. Agenda and all. Expect a lot more and a whole lot worst before its over.
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:11amApparently everyone in Washington knows the truth about Obama, but are afraid of “rioting in the streets” if Obama is removed from the Oval Office.
Report Post »aesaac
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:25amPalestinians, Muslims that are Israeli citizens are often primary actors in Islamic terrorism. It is not the Israeli Jew that is the problem with Muslim terrorism.
Report Post »butler180
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:29amAh, election time. Prez Obama is anti-Israel until it comes to the Jewish votes. The WH must have read the polls and figured we better say “it was a mistake” and immediately remove Israel from the terror list.
Report Post »If he is re-elected Israel will go back on the list faster than a speeding bullet.
GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:31amIf U look at all the massive number of companies based out of Israel involved in taking down the towers, YA THEY SHOULD BE ON THAT LIST!!
Report Post »Israel profits from terror, more than any other country in the world.
drattastic
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:16amInternal polling told them this would hurt them with Jewish fund raising efforts . They(the Adm.) will back off some and big Jewish donors will fork over the loot.Obama will continue to try and walk the razors edge between the progressive/socialist anti Semitism and Jews with deep pockets.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:22amI think the jewish community will read right through this. Obama put Israel on a terrorist watch list and then took them off when he realized that his Jewish support is dying faster than someone with african mutaba from the movie outbrteak.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:35am@SMITH
Report Post »I wish you were right but I think not. There is a deep seated liberal streak that runs through this community ,an irrational fear of the“ right” and especially evangelicals (ironically Israel’s biggest advocates) They want to believe the liars who tell them what they want to hear. Unfortunately they have picked their horse and most will stick with it even if it’s a JACKA$$.
fatjack
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:30amThe on off buttons will be flipped according to the political winds.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:05pmHAHA yeah RIGHT. BO has been siting on his brain again.
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:25pmI can not understand how any Jewish person could ever support this administration. It just doesn’t make sense.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 1:00pmMore of the NoMomma Obama administration doing what they do best- Telling lies and usinf the act of being incompetent as an excuse!!!!
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »AmericanSubject
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 5:33pmLet’s see, Veterans check, Christians check, Invilad Grannys check, Two Year Old Girls check, Israel check, Boy Scouts check,
Report Post »Border Patrol Agents check, Congressmen and women check.
The New Terrorist List is almost ready!