Homeland Security 'fusion' centers called 'useless'...

[CaseyJones]

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/02/14187433-homeland-security-fusion-centers-spy-on-citizens-produce-shoddy-work-report-says?lite

[michaelwise]

Representative Steve Cohen AKA Nathan Thurm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfFwNiY-0xE

(Full Movie) "The Police State" Conspiracy -Jesse Ventura


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dys3xE2Bnk

[Brian4Liberty]

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/02/14187433-homeland-security-fusion-centers-spy-on-citizens-produce-shoddy-work-report-says?lite

So will they cut the budget?


The Department of Homeland Security has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a network of 77 so-called “fusion” intelligence centers that have collected personal information on some U.S. citizens — including detailing the “reading habits” of American Muslims — while producing “shoddy” reports and making no contribution to thwarting any terrorist plots,* a new Senate report states.*

The “ fusion centers,” created under President George W. Bush and expanded under President Barack Obama, consist of* special** teams of* federal , state and local officials collecting and analyzing* intelligence on suspicious activities throughout the country.* They have been hailed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as “one of the centerpieces”* of the nation’s counterterrorism efforts.

But a bipartisan report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released Tuesday concludes that the centers “often produced irrelevant” and "useless” intelligence reports. “There were times when it was, ‘What a bunch of crap is coming through,’”*one senior Homeland Security official is quoted as saying .
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The investigation was led by the Republican staff of the subcommittee but the 107-page report was approved by chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich and ranking minority Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.**It stated that much basic information about the fusion centers – including exactly how much they cost the federal government — was difficult to obtain. Although the fusion centers are overseen by Homeland Security, they are funded primarily through grants to local governments by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Although Homeland Security “was unable to provide an accurate tally,” the panel estimated the federal dollars spent on the centers between 2003 and 2011 at between $289 million and $1.4 billion.

[coastie]

So will they cut the budget?


Blasphemer!

They clearly just don't have enough money to do the lob they're tasked with, and their budget should be increased from here on out.


















Reported.

[moostraks]

So will they cut the budget?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HTBEyNzj4MA/SRwmnX6WjHI/AAAAAAAAA6c/sTwamjapeKI/s400/r_u_serious_owl.JPG

[pcosmar]

Is this a good time to reexamine the MIAC Report? and other similar reports?

How about reassessing the SPLC role?

http://theintelhub.com/2010/10/08/it%E2%80%99s-official-southern-poverty-law-center-is-now-part-of-dhs/

[ronpaulfollower999]

A fusion center in California prepared a report about a speaker at a Muslim center in Santa Cruz who was giving a daylong motivational talk—and a lecture on “positive parenting.” No link to terrorism was alleged.

Damn frightening. Only the state can provide such lectures. Hell, give your kids to the state, and be more productive with your life.

[michaelwise]

I'm going to laugh my ass off when those useless government employees get laid off because of the complete and total economic collapse of the USA.

You'd think they'd learn something from all the economic blog and RP blog chatter their illegally spying on, teaching them something about the Federal Reserve corporation.

[sailingaway]

And found they spy on citizens. Big Sis says the report is 'outdated and misleading'.

Not, however, false.

[acptulsa]

And found they spy on citizens. Big Sis says the report is 'outdated and misleading'.

Not, however, false.

What, you think they'd actually lie to you? Never happens.

You see, you really are misled and out of date if you think for one moment it isn't worse than you know.