Fact sheet on the Terrorist Identities Datamart EnvironmentThe Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) is the US Government’s (USG)
central repository of information on international terrorist identities. TIDE supports the
USG’s various terrorist screening systems or “watchlists” and the US Intelligence
Community’s overall counterterrorism mission. The Terrorist Identities Group (TIG),
located in NCTC’s Information Sharing & Knowledge Development Directorate (ISKD), is
responsible for building and maintaining TIDE.The TIDE database includes, to the extent permitted by law, all information the U.S.
government possesses related to the identities of individuals known or appropriately
suspected to be or have been involved in activities constituting, in preparation for, in aid of,
or related to terrorism, with the exception of purely domestic terrorism information.
Fact sheet on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment
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Interested to know more about US terrorism watch lists and how they are managed? The National Counterterrorism Center has produced the following fact sheet:
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