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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 that's 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 afghanistan and you have to go through serious cross-examination process and one of the problems is these ...

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: here's 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 get the applicant's fingerprints and check criminal records. surprisingly even in pakistan where m...

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 here's 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 that regardless of the impetus of information, whether it's the fbi, the social security or atf or d...

About it, but the truth is, if they weren't specifically told, hey, there's a guy here living down the street in cambridge and we did this investigation and didn't 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. >> it's the police here, it's 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 local governments have their own representatives who have access to federal terrorism databases. ...