Julian Sanchez
Your Homeland Security Dollars At Work: Tracking ‘Occupy’
Senate Report Finds Fusion Centers Expensive & Useless
For years, top officials at the Department of Homeland Security have touted “fusion centers“— designed to share security information between state, local, and federal government agencies — as a “vital tool for strengthening homeland security,” a “proven and invaluable tool,” and “one of the centerpieces of our counterterrorism strategy.” But a blistering new bipartisan Senate report paints a radically different picture, exposing these centers as a costly boondoggle that flouted civil liberties safeguards, lacked basic accountability, and produced “intelligence” that was overwhelmingly useless or irrelevant—or as one particularly candid official put it, “a load of crap.”