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'Fusion centers' might be scary if they actually work

By Gritsforbreakfast

There are darn good reasons why President Harry Truman in 1947 insisted on a ban in the CIA charter on US intelligence services spying on Americans, but in the wake of 9/11 our nation seems to have largely forgotten them.Still, anyone with the slightest small "l" libertarian streak must surely question the rise of a secretive network of "Fusion Centers," discussed on the front page of yesterday's Washington Post ("Centers tap into personal databases," April 2). Indeed, what are "fusion centers" except the state-level spearpoint of a domestic intelligence operation? Reported the Post:Dozens of the organizations known as fusion centers were created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to identify potential threats and improve the way information is shared...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 03, 2008 (boomark / email).