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Re:Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to becom... by djf1 on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:17PM (#9214451)
Do you have a source on the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list?

I see a report from 2012 which cites 500 Americans, out of a total 21,000 (https://www.aclu.org/national-security/factsheet-aclus-chall...), and a report from 2014 which cites 47,000 total (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/05/watch-commande...), so I would assume the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list is at least double the figure you list.

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Re:Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to becom... by anonbanker on Monday March 16, 2015 @07:42PM (#9215286)
According to the end of CITIZENFOUR, 1.5 million Americans are on various stages of the federal terrorist watch list.
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Re:Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to becom... by zo1 on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:51PM (#9214673)
Wow, those numbers are way larger than 500. Kind of makes my points above (your post's sibling) quite a fair bit more scary.
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