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Matt Collins
10-23-2012, 02:05 AM
The Truth about Fusion Centers (http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/truth-about-fusion-centers)
http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/truth-about-fusion-centers

Warrior_of_Freedom
10-23-2012, 03:23 AM
Here I was expecting something about fusion power plants

Brian4Liberty
10-23-2012, 01:40 PM
Good video.

coastie
10-23-2012, 02:46 PM
I just watched(read?) something recently about them, and it turned out they had "X" amount of these centers on paper, then an audit revealed that a lot of them didn't even exist.

That makes me feel safe, how about you?

Brian4Liberty
10-23-2012, 03:02 PM
I just watched(read?) something recently about them, and it turned out they had "X" amount of these centers on paper, then an audit revealed that a lot of them didn't even exist.

That makes me feel safe, how about you?

Makes me feel ripped off.

The Free Hornet
10-23-2012, 03:37 PM
The wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center) about Fusion Centers:


Fusion center
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A fusion center is an information sharing center, many of which were jointly created between 2003 and 2007 under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice.

They are designed to promote information sharing at the federal level between agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. military, and state- and local-level government. As of July 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recognized at least 72 fusion centers. Fusion centers may also be affiliated with an Emergency Operations Center that responds in the event of a disaster.

The fusion process is an overarching method of managing the flow of information and intelligence across levels and sectors of government to integrate information for analysis.[1] That is, the process relies on the active involvement of state, local, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies—and sometimes on non–law enforcement agencies (e.g., private sector) – to provide the input of raw information for intelligence analysis. As the array of diverse information sources increases, there will be more accurate and robust analysis that can be disseminated as intelligence.

A two-year senate investigation found that "the fusion centers often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting to DHS, and many produced no intelligence reporting whatsoever."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center)

I never heard of this phrase before and don't always like learning new things. As such, I didn't watch the vid but will undoubtably read about the train wrecks in the future.

Brian4Liberty
10-23-2012, 04:50 PM
The wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center) about Fusion Centers:

I never heard of this phrase before and don't always like learning new things. As such, I didn't watch the vid but will undoubtably read about the train wrecks in the future.

Never heard of "Fusion Centers"? Better read up on the SPLC while you are it.