Senate Panel: Homeland Security Data Centers Mainly Terrorize Citizens

dailytech ^ | - October 3, 2012 7:33 PM | Jason Mick (Blog)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Report finds that while the centers may lead to civil liberties violations, they don't do much to catch terrorists

In a new 146-page report released by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, a bipartisan panel of senators calls into question the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) claims that so-called "Fusion" data centers have successfully been employed to stop terrorists.

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While the DHS claimed that the centers were used to stop the Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi's 2009 plot to bomb the New York subway, the Senate "could identify nothing that uncovered a terrorist threat, nor could it identify a contribution any fusion center made to disrupt an active terrorist plot."

Contrast that with what DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a 2010 speech in which she commented, "It was a fusion center near Denver that played the key role in 'fusing' the information that came from the public with evidence that came in following the [subway plot] suspect's arrest by the FBI."

The Senate committee said that the 2009 plot and others -- like a 2010 effort to place a car bomb in Times Square -- were not cracked by the Fusion centers at all. The officers involved in the cases would have done the exact same thing they did to crack those cases, with or without the data center.  For example, in the subway plot, the Colorado state troopers who solved the cases were working with their state's data center, but their detective work to discover and stop the plot came from the agency they were primarily reporting to -- the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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The Senate concludes that when all the privileged details of the investigations were considered, there was no sign that the pricey data centers were successful at fighting any known terrorist plot.

[GeronL]

Don’t worry, the Senators also praised them and kept funding them.

[GeronL]

I still can’t believe my satirical take on this was panned, even by FReepers!

http://asspos.blogspot.com/2012/10/they-really-are-spying-on-you-senate.html

[American Constitutionalist]

( Senate Panel: Homeland Security Data Centers Mainly Terrorize Citizens ): Homeland Security, doing the spying job on Americans that the KGB don’t want to do.

[bunkerhill7]

The one in Vermont was used to catch local small-time criminals =not once used to monitor the US/Canadian border trespassers,- What a pork farm!

[FreedomPoster]

Fusion center ping.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Oh,...I like the headline....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Way past my bed time.....night all!

[1010RD]

That’s the problem. We know it doesn’t work, but we cannot stop funding it. That’s nuts.

[generally]

More and more, my take on DHS is that it was a massive jobs program for political donors and special interest groups.

There are a few competent and well-meaning DHS employees, but for the most part it seems to be staffed at the bottom with the incompetent and otherwise unemployable, at the middle with those who are petty bureaucrats and feel self-important to be in the job, and at the top with political cronies getting a big payoff.

[TXnMA]

Here is a first-person example of a FReeper being classified as a "terrorist threat" by these Øbozo-worshiping clowns!

[Georgia Girl 2]

So when are they going to shut all these worthless fusion centers down?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Romney is our only hope!

When?....No Idea!