The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report to Congress on the deployment of over 40 Fusion Centers throughout the nation. Fusion Centers are the most recent effort by the federal government to establish an operational domestic surveillance program. The CRS report states that officials justifying the development of fusion centers use a number of presumptions, and that the goals of the centers seem to be unfocused with wide-ranging explanations on what they are intended to accomplish. The report outlined threats to civil liberties and privacy posed by the deployment of Fusion Centers, which have no laws governing them.
(Epic.org - emphasis mine)
Fusion centers? WTF? Turns out "fusion centers" are massive data-gathering operations. That would be data about you, Dude - data not only from government but also private sources. Oh yeah, there's a built-in profit motive - we're living in R-land now.
Moreover:
The Criminal Intelligence Summit participants stressed the need to not limit the data sharing to terrorism or terrorist related activity, but to extend it to all criminal intelligence under the general heading of "Intelligence-Led Policing."Ain't that just dandy. (BTW, seen "Minority Report"?) Gotta hand it to that Criminal freakin' Intelligence (no oxymoron there) Summit.
That Kondi Rice said just the other day fighting terrorists is never an excuse to abridge the Constitution.
Alas, she was talking about Pakistan at the time.
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