Posted on 03/25/2007 1:42:39 PM PDT by curtisgardner
Each day, thousands of pieces of intelligence information from around the world -- field reports, captured documents, news from foreign allies and sometimes idle gossip -- arrive in a computer-filled office in McLean, where analysts feed them into the nation's central list of terrorists and terrorism suspects.
Called TIDE, for Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, the list is a storehouse for data about individuals that the intelligence community believes might harm the United States. It is the wellspring for watch lists distributed to airlines, law enforcement, border posts and U.S. consulates, created to close one of the key intelligence gaps revealed after Sept. 11, 2001: the failure of federal agencies to share what they knew about al-Qaeda operatives.
But in addressing one problem, TIDE has spawned others. Ballooning from fewer than 100,000 files in 2003 to about 435,000, the growing database threatens to overwhelm the people who manage it. "The single biggest worry that I have is long-term quality control," said Russ Travers, in charge of TIDE at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean. "Where am I going to be, where is my successor going to be, five years down the road?"
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"Where am I going to be, where is my successor going to be, five years down the road?"
Probably processing the first lists of known conservatives by then.
the clintons have been doing that for years...
"The list marks the first time foreigners and U.S. citizens are combined in an intelligence database. The bar for inclusion is low, and once someone is on the list, it is virtually impossible to get off it."
Not cool. This needs to be fixed.
When Hillary becomes President Jim Robinson will be the first name she adds (after Joe Farah), and then the rest of us shortly after that.
c'mon
clearly there is no threat
this is all conversation and guys justifying their jobs
your name is probably on their list
if there was a threat, and it was real we wouldnt be talking about it.... there would be multiple glazed parking lots through the mideast.
these pissants have to come to recognize that you can push america only so far.... then the $hit will hit the fan.
Every dog gets his day.
It must have really ballooned after the 2006 Congressional elections.
Wonder if a citizen can check this database for their own name?
Jack
And it's true, I have NO trust in the government
I'd bet that IBM, Oracle, Cray and others are doing a lot of work for Uncle.
If you have a passport, served in the military, or have a CCW permit, you're in some Federal database somewhere.
I'd bet that IBM, Oracle, Cray and others are doing a lot of work for Uncle.
Yes to all the above.
Sure would be nice to see what is really in these records.
Jack
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