Numbers? We've Got Yer Number Right Here

Just another little wrinkle you might not be aware of in the War on America™.

The only question is whether the Bush Administration has put me on a terrorist watch list, or what my risk assessment number is. Because anyone who travels outside the U.S. has one:

Without notifying the public, federal agents for the past four years have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals.

The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments, which the government intends to keep on file for 40 years.

The scores are assigned to people entering and leaving the United States after computers assess their travel records, including where they are from, how they paid for tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind of meal they ordered.

Read more over at Brilliant at Breakfast. And she has links. No, not those kinda links.

PS: Sausage links are not halal whereas Jill's are.