Data Sources
The IDW used many data sources. The FOIA documents from EFF are heavily redacted, but some of the sources are as follows:
- FBI Automated Case Support system (ACS), subset of the Electronic Case File (ECF) system
- Joint Intelligence Committee Investigation documents (JICI), with OCR text
- "Open Source News" (public websites, such as the Washington Post and others)
- Secure Automated Messaging Network (SAMNet)
- Violent Gang and Terrorist Organizing File (VGTOF)
- DARPA TIDES program ('open source news' that has been organized and collected)
- IntelPlus Filerooms, with OCR text
- FBI National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
- FBI Records Management Division (RMD), Document Laboratory (DocLab), FBIHQ
- MiTAP (collects data from public sources, websites, etc.)
- SPT-Specific data sources (partial list, FOIA files have large parts redacted):
- Unified Name Index (UNI) extracts
- Financial Center (FinCen), including Bank Secrecy Act data
- "Various Sources", including the Transportation Security Administration
- FBI Counterterrorism Division (CTD)
- Telephone numbers / addresses from ACS
- Case data from ACS
- Terrorist Watch List (TWL)
- "Other NJTTF data"
- DoS ... Lost/Stolen Passport data
- No Fly List, from TSA
- Selectee list, from TSA
- ACS/ECF with some case types excluded
- CIA non-TS/non-SCI Technical Discussions (TDs) and Intelligence Information Reports (IIRs) from 1978 to the May 2004
There was also talk of linking the FTTTF "Data Mart" with IDW.
The data in IDW is classified at the 'Secret' level or lower. Higher classifications are not allowed, and can be removed
Read more about this topic: Investigative Data Warehouse
Famous quotes containing the words data and/or sources:
“Mental health data from the 1950’s on middle-aged women showed them to be a particularly distressed group, vulnerable to depression and feelings of uselessness. This isn’t surprising. If society tells you that your main role is to be attractive to men and you are getting crow’s feet, and to be a mother to children and yours are leaving home, no wonder you are distressed.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding—and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)