https://www.dhs.gov/topic/fusion-centers-support-national-strategies-and-guidance
still don’t quite know what a fusion center is...
"Our nation faces an evolving threat environment, in which threats emanate not only from outside our borders but also from within our communities. This new environment demonstrates the critical role state and major urban area fusion centers (fusion centers) have in supporting the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between various federal government agencies and state, local, tribal, and territorial partners."
Concerning threats emanating... I can't help wondering if this relates to the name Fusion GPS? Was the company given that name as a clue they were set up to manage DS threat control?
It sounds like they're referring to information fusion, or connecting the dots in 9/11 parlance. They should have called them Connecting-the-Dots Centers.
https://www.dhs.gov/topic/fusion-centers-support-national-strategies-and-guidance
still don’t quite know what a fusion center is...
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From Your link, another link leads to a definition:
Fusion Centers:
“Fusion Centers are state-owned and operated centers that serve as focal points in states and major urban areas for the receipt, analysis, gathering and sharing of threat-related information between State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT), federal and private sector partners.”
(MORE AT LINK)
https://www.dhs.gov/fusion-centers
I’m guessing these are to replace the disaster that Bush Jr. ushered in under the guise of “breaking down information silos” and “improved cooperation among agencies.”
I didn’t understand it at the time *cringe* so I didn’t object when Bush’s administration talked about this “modernizing” of intel. It’s like they invited all the agencies (which were then fully corrupt) to bring buckets of intel to a central well and dump it in. That meant all could then access the entire well. An example I read that every piece of information or intel the gov had on you (local/state/federal) was accessible without tracking by everyone those agencies allowed to have it (i.e., un-vetted contractors) and that was often used as leverage (blackmail or worse). In fact, I believe EVERY deep stater had access to all agency intel (e.g.,Hillary) with easily ignored logging to prove they ever accessed it.
That actually was a removal of security from intel (no tracking, vetting optional) but at the time it was pitched as an urgent need to secure the country from 9/11 terrorists (oh and they probably included Tea Partiers too).
So I am wondering if FUSION CENTERS replace that by providing a secured hub (staff, procedures, vetting, authentication, maybe SCIF)local to large urban areas and other regions. Like having many wifi hubs in a system, with state/local/tribal using the center’s resources (and secured comms) to share information among themselves by agreement, and with logging of who accessed what/when, without exposing their localized/state information with the entire nation or with Washington D.C.
The centers would likely be staffed with DHS whom would also play information broker as needed. A Comey or a Hillary could not reach down from outside the region into the intel well of these areas, and likely local contributors would be vetted by DHS when dropping off and accessing data (or denied data).
https://www.youtube.com/user/georgwebb/search?query=fusion+center
https://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/privacy/fusioncenter_20071212.pdf
"Executive Summary
A new institution is emerging in American life: Fusion Centers.
These state, local andregional institutions were originally created to improve the sharing of anti-terrorismintelligence among different state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. Thoughthey developed independently and remain quite different from one another, for many thescope of their mission has quickly expanded—with the support and encouragement ofthe federal government—to cover “all crimes and all hazards.” The types of informationthey seek for analysis has also broadened over time to include not just criminal intelli-gence, but public and private sector data, and participation in these centers has grown toinclude not just law enforcement, but other government entities, the military and evenselect members of the private sector.
These new fusion centers, over 40 of which have been established around the country,raise very serious privacy issues at a time when new technology, government powersand zeal in the “war on terrorism” are combining to threaten Americans’ privacy at anunprecedented level.
Moreover, there are serious questions about whether data fusion is an effective means ofpreventing terrorism in the first place, and whether funding the development of thesecenters is a wise investment of finite public safety resources. Yet federal, state and localgovernments are increasing their investment in fusion centers without properly assess-ing whether they serve a necessary purpose."