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You have another terrorist screening database with 423,000 names. tsarnaev was said to be on that list. then theres a select d list with 14,000 names. a no fly list with 10,000 names and the kill list, we dont know exactly how many names are on that. does it make sense to have all of these lists? >> so, look, i think most of these lists are to be used as references. theyre not generating leads, open investigations. it depends on how theyre used. they can be useful just as a resource for some org...

Have securityingsefn that issue, let them look at that. im trying to describe how the process works. >> i understand that. i know there are a bunch of different groups, you said it is completely transparent, according to you, that theyre sharing information. i am trying to figure out where the buck stops, in ig happens. the president says the buck stops with me. this type of information, what agency, who does the buck stop with? >> well, there are many. you could say the director of national int...

Citizenship but had a green card, lived here a long time and was unhappy as an american. these folks are closer to home grown terrorists than they are what we normally think of as foreign terrorists. that doesnt -- i think theyre in some ways thats the tough one, right? they didnt have a track record. no prior record of doing this. they didnt have any affiliations with organizations. i think the u.s. has done a very good job in the decade plus after 9/11 in targeting organizations abroad, follow...

This issue before senate committee. >> i think the fact there senator is that the fbi text alert on him at that point was more than a year old and had expired. >> not only have we learned that tamerlan tsarnaev himself was listed on this tide list, so was his mother. joining us from memphis is fill mudd from the new american foundation. he used to be counterterrorism official for the fbi and cia. and, mr. mudd, welcome. now that we know that this elder slain brother and his mother were both on t...

Ago, put information like date of birth, you know, over time if an analyst wants to look up whatever the u.s. government knows about someone that was vaguely suspicious years ago, they can go to the tide list. lets separate out a watch list and a list that simply is a compilation of identity information about suspected people. >> so then, with, lets say this tide list, which we knew tamerlan tsarnaev and his mother was on, what is the red flag lets say for anyone on the list what is the red flag...

Theres an implication he was on a watch list, but thats been, seems to be a mixed reporting on that. pete williams has been saying and reporting on our air that some agencies have said maybe he was on a watch list. others said he wasnt. what have you learned? >> well, he was on a tide list, which is different from the terrorist watch list. either way, his name should have popped up. now, there were a lot of clerical errors. i wouldnt say a comedy of errors, but a lot of information on clerical e...

Tackle that until i get into a little bit deeper. but youre right, absolutely right. that is why the office was set up, to make sure all these various intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies were communicating. martha: so where do we go from here? and is there, is there an issue with, perhaps, being too politically correct? when everybody is on the list, right? you have 500,000 on this tide list and smaller subset on terrorist list and were not talking to the right people at least in ...