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The database reportedly held more than 1.5 million entities which included the names and birthdates of people with suspected ties to terrorist organizations.

Tragedy. we left americans and visa holders and permanent residents and employees of the embassy in afghanistan and pulled out 73,000 we had no basis for pulling out. the realities you go through databases and terrorism databases, biometrics but in the end looking for new terrorists, new potential problems, not likely to show up on the database and thats the problem. when we that i managed all the vetting related to the iraq police force. when i was at state and we did a similar thing in afghani...

Jihad. now the obama administration is reviewing whether social media for visa applicants should be checked, something many employers already do. >> the social media has place ad whole new burden and a whole new set of questions, but not impossible ones to resolve. >> reporter: heres how the process works. a u.s. citizen applies for a k1 visa to bring in a fiancee from overseas. the name of the foreign applicant is checked against u.s. terrorism databases. then state department officers overseas...

Say, i will let it in. i want to move on. now that the older brother and the alleged master mind on three watch lists, three watch lists of terrorism databases heres the tecs, the fbi terrorist screening watch list. a huge database of 500,000 and yet no one know tamerlan returned to the u.s. from russia if 2012. what do you make of that, lou? >> very simple. we do not have a single database that all of our law enforcement agencies are tied in to. so we can share and comingle our information so t...

About it, but the truth is, if they werent specifically told, hey, theres a guy here living down the street in cambridge and we did this investigation and didnt find anything, but we thought you should know that cuts against some of what was learned after 9/11, that state and locals who we saw are the first responders. >> right. >> its the police here, its the state police were sort of maybe the last to know. >> that is certainly troubling. fran, the fbi told the "boston globe" that state and lo...

So theyre watching him. >> well, the problem was they did not have any other corroborating information to identify him as a threat. what has to be determined is, was information on shahzad put into the terrorism databases and was there any other corroborating information that they missed? >> we can put things together. they went to the trouble of checking him out on making a condo sale but didnt notice he went over there for five months to get training in terrorism? >> they went to pakistan, but...

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Pakistanis killed in terrorist attacks by al qaeda and their associates. we recognize that they mean as much danger to the pakistanis as they do to us. so were going to continue to deepen that cooperation, were going to make clear to them that these enemies, which are their enemies, are our enemies too. >> so is 53 hours from the time this happened to the time we picked the guy up, right? >> thats correct. >> okay, thank you very much, dennis mcdonough of the national security council. >> apprec...

Was information on shahzad put into the terrorism databases and was there any other corroborating information that they missed. >> piece things together, went through the trouble of checking out in making a condo sale but didnt notice he went over there, for what, five months to get training in terrorism. >> went back to pakistan but didnt know what he was -- >> connect the dots. checking him out before and then they saw he went for terrorist training. >> so the question is -- >> one dot would b...