The request was posted quietly in March by the procurement arm of the bureau's Threat Screening Center (TSC), the office that runs the US terrorist watch list. The full document was obtained and first reported by Reason, which found the bureau asking vendors for predictive capabilities built on the government's own data. The watch list has grown to nearly 2 million names, and the FBI wants software fast enough to sift them. A Watch List That Now Targets DissentAt the start of Trump's second term, fewer than 10,000 of those names were Americans. Audits by the Government Accountability Office have repeatedly found errors in the watch list data used to flag travellers, and the Supreme Court has twice ruled against the bureau over wrongful watch-listing.