No surprise to some here that the DHS proxies, state fusion centers, aren't looking too good.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
EXSUM:
Oct 3, 2:36 AM (ET)
By MATT APUZZO and EILEEN SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON (AP) - A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about innocent Americans and produced little valuable intelligence on terrorism, a Senate report concludes. It portrays an effort that ballooned far beyond anyone's ability to control.
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"The subcommittee investigation could identify no reporting which uncovered a terrorist threat, nor could it identify a contribution such fusion center reporting made to disrupt an active terrorist plot," the report said.
When fusion centers did address terrorism, they sometimes did so in ways that infringed on civil liberties. The centers have made headlines for circulating information about Ron Paul supporters, the ACLU, activists on both sides of the abortion debate, war protesters and advocates of gun rights.
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In my view the report sounds pretty accurate. In the past year the "output" is balanced - by my eyes - at about
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- 20% recounting of mainstream news articles (many days/weeks late)
- 20% discussing dated history as their jumping-off point for a theory - I'm tellin' ya OKC & McVeigh are blamed for everything almost as much as Obama blames Bush.
- 10% invitations & recruiting blurbs to come attend their free training to make you a liaison(gotta use up that grant money before the end of the fiscal year)
and [drumroll+splash]...
- 50% during the last year trumpeting what the DHS has done for you and how they lead the way in almost everything that matters to real Americans.
Joe Lieberman, one of the legislative godfathers of the effort way back, is not pleased.
I wonder how this all stacks up with USPS' latest $5B default...?
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