How is information from TIDE used for watchlists?
Each day analysts create and enhance TIDE records based on their review of nominations received. Every evening, TIDE analysts export a sensitive but unclassified subset of the data containing the terrorist identifiers to the FBI s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) for use in the USG s consolidated watchlist. This consolidated watchlist, which is a critical tool for homeland security, supports screening processes to detect and interdict known and suspected terrorists at home and abroad for example, the Transportation Security Administration s No Fly list and the Department of State s visa database, among others. For more information see www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/counterterrorism/tsc.htm. How many names are in TIDE? As of January 2009, TIDE contained more than 564,000 names, but only about 500,000 separate “identities” because of the use of aliases and name variants. U.S. Persons (including both citizens and legal permanent residents) make up less than five percent of the listings. [>28,000.
