
“The federal government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help establish more than 70 such ‘fusion centers’ throughout the country. The idea was for the centers to serve as a domestic information-sharing network that would help local, state and federal law enforcement agencies better collaborate to prevent a future attack. But a two-year inquiry released earlier this month questions the value of such centers saying they’ve provided irrelevant, useless or inappropriate information that, in some instances, threatened people’s constitutional rights.”
http://www.oklahoman.com/article/3720939
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