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The tide list. the highest level security list. there's disagreement frankly among law enforcement and intelligence agencies about how well the watch list would have worked to stop the attackers from traveling here. one intelligence official tells me that human sources and other intelligence methods would have filled the gaps, but law enforcement officials are very concerned that that's not the case. now, this is not a new concern. in the past year homeland security department has added new requirements for information for citizens traveling from the 38 visa waiver countries. but as a sign tha...

Investigation by removing tsarnaev's back pack from his dorm room entered the country on an expired student visa. how did that happen? and is it fair to say that this case is exposing some vulnerabilities in this country? >> yes, i think it's true. i think we've got to tierten it up, clearly. we've god to have nobody coming in on expired visas. that's a mistake. let's tighten it up quickly and you know another thing to build on what you said is tamerlan was on a terrorist list, a large tide list which is a quarter million names -- i'm sorry, 700,000 names, maybe, and he went out of the country...

For years. >> at the end of the day, it's very difficult because with many of these individuals, we don't know when they're going to cross the line from rhetoric to violent action. >> security experts argue watch lists can still be valuable to investigators, tracking terror networks after an attack. but the fact the boston bombings were the work of someone already on a list is now in itself being looked at very hard. for "outfront," tom foreman, washington. >> "outfront" tonight, a former cia analyst who spearheaded the -- operations team. seth jones is the associate director of the internatio...

You have another terrorist screening database with 423,000 names. tsarnaev was said to be on that list. then there's a select d list with 14,000 names. a no fly list with 10,000 names and the kill list, we don't 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. they're not generating leads, open investigations. it depends on how they're used. they can be useful just as a resource for some organizations, but again, i'm not exactly sure how all of those databases interact at this point. >...

Don't know, desperation, they went to the cia and the cia puts them on a watch list and then the tide list is supposed to track them going out of the country and coming back in. that didn't happen. and there is a conflict because homeland security secretary napolitano said there were pings going out. and the cia says there has not. >> you ask people who i think ought to be able to deliver straight, comprehensive answers about this, and they can't. you say to people, what happens when the system pings, to use janet napolitano's phrase? they can't give you an answer. this is true whether it's an...