The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) is the U.S. government's central database on known or suspected ''international'' terrorists, and contains highly classified information provided by members of the
Intelligence Community such as
CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
,
DIA,
FBI,
NSA
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collec ...
, and many others.
As of February 2017, there are 1.6 million names in TIDE. In 2008, more than 27,000 names were removed from the list when it was determined they no longer met the criteria for inclusion. According to the FBI, international terrorists include those persons who carry out terrorist activities under foreign direction. For this purpose, they may include U.S. persons (U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents). The ''Terrorist Identities Group (TIG)'', located in
NCTC's ''Information Sharing & Knowledge Development Directorate (ISKD)'', is responsible for building and maintaining TIDE.
From the classified TIDE database, an unclassified, but sensitive, extract is provided to the FBI's
Terrorist Screening Center
The Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) is a division of the National Security Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is the duty of the TSC to identify suspected or potential terrorists. Though housed within the FBI, the TSC is a mul ...
, which compiles the
Terrorist Screening Database
The Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) is the central terrorist watchlist consolidated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terrorist Screening Center and used by multiple agencies to compile their specific watchlists and for screening. The ...
(TSDB).
This database, in turn, is used to compile various watch lists such as the TSA's
No Fly List, State Department's
Consular Lookout and Support System The Consular Lookout and Support System (CLASS) is a system supporting the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs: it assists in decisions for visa and passport issuance and helps establish a person's eligibility for overseas services. ...
, Homeland Security's
Interagency Border Inspection System, and FBI's NCIC (
National Crime Information Center) for state and local law enforcement.
Tuscan and Tactics
Documents revealed under the Access to Information Act indicate that all border guards and immigration offers have access to a US database of 680,000 people affiliated with terrorism and maintained by the United States. The names on the list come from the US Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), which populates various US traveller databases, Canada's Tuscan and the Australian equivalent, "Tactics".
See also
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Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System
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Datamart
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Open Source Information System
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No Fly List
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Selectee list
References
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External links
Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years - washingtonpost.com (March 25, 2007)
Terrorism databases
Government databases in the United States