The yanks have a No-Fly list which is supposed to stop terrorists getting on an aeroplane. Sounds fair enough, right? Well get this, there’s 44,000 names on the list! Including 14 of the 19 terrorists who died on 9/11, the President of Bolivia, Saddam Hussein (like he’ll be flying anywhere) and some Nazi sympathizer who’s been dead for 10 years.

CBS’s 60 Minutes got a copy of the list and checked it out:

The first surprise was the sheer size of it. In paper form it is more than 540 pages long. Before 9/11, the government’s list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel totaled just 16 names; today there are 44,000. And that doesn’t include people the government thinks should be pulled aside for additional security screening. There are another 75,000 people on that list.

And here’s the best bit: because the list gets circulated to airline desks, the CIA refuses to put actual, suspected terrorists on it because it’s not secure enough! What a fucking farce! You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.

From: CBS’s 60 Minutes