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The 43-page report, released Tuesday by Democrats on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlights concerns regarding the watchlist and approximately twenty other screening processes. According to the report, these procedures have the tendency to distribute limited national security resources broadly, rather than effectively targeting evolving threats.

The report also emphasizes the lack of oversight in these procedures, raising questions about their effectiveness and potential for abuse. Additionally, it states that Americans who are wrongfully subjected to screenings have "insufficient" options for recourse.

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"As the size of the watchlist and screening enterprise grows, so does the chance of misidentification, the need for additional resources, and the risk that existing limited resources may be spent on low risks, overlooking real threats," it added. 

The terrorist watchlist

The size of the terrorist watchlist grew to about 1.8 million names as of November 2022, an increase from 150,000 names in 2004, according to the committee. The list now contains approximately 2 million names, according to a CBS Reports investigation released last week, which found the list nearly doubled in size in just six years. U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents made up fewer than 7,000 of the names on the watchlist, Senate investigators wrote.