DHS Fraud: 77 DHS Fusion Centers Produced No Intelligence Reporting Whatsoever, Video

“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. Wikipedia”

DHS spends $1.4 Billion Dollars to Spy on American Public through Fusion Centers

 In a 107-page report released late Tuesday, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said that Homeland Security has spent up to $1.4 billion funding fusion centers — in effect, regional intelligence sharing centers–  that have produced “useless” reports while at the same time collecting information on the innocent activities of American Citizens that may have violated a federal privacy law.

What are Fusion Centers?

“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. .

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.”   From Wikipedia.”

Tracking Terrorist Activity or Spying on American Citizens?

According to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee report, these fusion centers have found “no reporting which uncovered a terrorist threat, nor could it identify a contribution such fusion center reporting made to disrupt an active terrorist plot.”

In fact, the report goes on to show that what these Fusion Centers have excelled at, is spying on the American Public.

From detailed accounts of DHS officials spying on everyone from fisherman and religious groups to numerous examples of Fusion Centers collecting and maintaining information on U.S. citizens who were not part of a criminal investigation, the report highlights a disturbing amount of Constitutional and civil liberty violations.

There are a number of documented criticisms of fusion centers, including relative ineffectiveness at counterterrorism activities, the potential to be used for secondary purposes unrelated to counterterrorism, and their links to violations of civil liberties of American citizens and others.^[7] One such fusion center has been involved with spying on anti-war and peace activists as well as anarchists in Washington State.^[8]

David Rittgers of the Cato Institute has noted

A long line of fusion center and DHS reports labeling broad swaths of the public as a threat to national security. The North Texas Fusion System labeled Muslim lobbyists as a potential threat;

  DHS analyst in Wisconsin thought both pro- and anti-abortion activists were worrisome;

  Pennsylvania homeland security contractor watched environmental activists,

  Tea Party groups,and a Second Amendment rally; 

 Maryland State Police put anti-death penalty and anti-war activists in a federal terrorism database; a fusion center in Missouri thought that all third-party voters and Ron Paul supporters were a threat;

and the Department of Homeland Security described half of the American political spectrum as “right wing extremists.”^[9]

In a study from the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) titled, “MIAC Strategic Report:

MIAC Report

Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) made news in 2009 for targeting supporters of third party candidates, Ron Paul supporters, pro-life activists, and conspiracy theorists as potential militia members.^[10]Anti-war activists and Islamic lobby groups were targeted in Texas, drawing criticism from the ACLU.^[11]

According to the Department of Homeland Security:^[12]

[T]he Privacy Office has identified a number of risks to privacy presented by the fusion center program:

1. Justification for fusion centers
2. Ambiguous Lines of Authority, Rules, and Oversight
3. Participation of the Military and the Private Sector
4. Data Mining
5. Excessive Secrecy
6. Inaccurate or Incomplete Information
7. Mission Creep

2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment

In early April 2009, the Virginia Fusion Center came under criticism for publishing a terrorism threat assessment which stated that certain universities are potential hubs for terror related activity.^[13] The report targeted historically black colleges and identified hacktivism as a form of terrorism.^[14]

These Fusion Center Reports, and others like it, have been used by DHS, the FBI and a number of other Government Agencies to Justify Spying on Patriotic Americans.

In fact, we’ve detailed numerous examples in the past, including an FBI news conference where the Government actually warned that survivalists, conspiracy theorists & those who believe in personal liberty were a terrorist threat to the nation.

Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma,  the ranking Republican on the panel, charged Wednesday that Homeland Security had tried to bury evidence of problems at the centers.

“Unfortunately, DHS has resisted oversight of these centers,” he said. “The Department opted not to inform Congress or the public of serious problems plaguing its fusion centers and broader intelligence efforts.

  When this subcommittee requested documents that would help it identify these issues, the department initially resisted turning them over, arguing that they were protected by privilege, too sensitive to share, were protected by confidentiality agreements, or did not exist at all.

The American people deserve better. I hope this report will help generate the reforms that will help keep our country safe.”

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Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center