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• How to Get Off a Government Watch List -- Wired Magazine

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• Goo, Sara Kehaulani. "Hundreds Report Watch-List Trials." The Washington Post. August 24, 2004. (March 5, 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/
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• Larence, Eileen R. "Terrorist Watch List Screening." Testimony Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate. Oct. 24, 2007. (March 5, 2008)
• Lichtblau, Eric. "Papers Show Confusion as Government Watch List Grew Quickly." The New York Times. Oct. 9, 2004. (March 5, 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/politics/09nofly.html?oref=login
• NOW. "Are you on a watch list?" Public Broadcasting Stations. March 3, 2006. (March 5, 2008)
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• Pincus, Walter and Eggen, Dan. "325,000 Names on Terrorism List." The Washington Post. Feb. 15, 2006. (March 5, 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
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• Singel, Ryan. "How to Get Off a Government Watch List." Wired Magazine. April 16, 2007. (March 5, 2008) http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/04/watchlist2
• Singel, Ryan. "Nun Terrorized by Watch List." Wired Magazine. Sept. 26, 2005. (March 10, 2008) http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2005/09/68973
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