Fusion Centers Aren’t About Fighting Terror
AP –
This is a pretty natural development. The point of these things is resiliency, not a myopic view
of fighting terror. (Another reason why the GWOT is a misnomer.)
Local intelligence-sharing centers set up after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have had their anti-terrorism mission diluted by a focus on run-of-the-mill street crime and hazards such as hurricanes, a government report concludes.
Bizarre inefficiencies are another story altogether.
Of the 43 “fusion centers” already established, only two focus exclusively on preventing terrorism, the Government Accountability Office found in a national survey obtained by The Associated Press. Center directors complain that they were hampered by lack of guidance from Washington and they were flooded by often redundant information from multiple computer systems.
-Shlok
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