Feeding the Terrorism Clearinghouse

Each day, waves of new information are fed into terrorism-suspect databases, and some intelligence analysts fear the quantity of information will overtake the human capacity to manage it.

[Diagram explaining the flow of information from intelligence agencies to analysis to terrorist databases and watch lists.]

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