US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing

Wired has an article on the national fusion centers in the US, which were created to aid intelligence-sharing in the fight against terrorism but are increasingly being used to look at other sorts of crimes. The keynote of these centers is "all hazards, all threats" — the LA police chief is quoted: "Information that might seem innocuous may have some connection to terrorism." The ACLU has up an interactive US map to help you become acquainted with your local fusion center.

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Power expands to fill all available space

[jonaskoelker]

Wired has an <a>article</a> Not fixed. The again, we don't read articles around here ;)

on the national fusion centers in the US, which were created to aid intelligence-sharing in the fight against terrorism How much terrorism has happened recently? Hasn't enough resources been put into fighting it?

but are increasingly being used to look at other sorts of crimes. Hmm... is this perhaps part of a "we're tough on crime" bullet to put on the election checklist? Or possibly a way to hand more power to the law enforcement?

Just some things to ponder...

Diary of Anne Frank

[MillionthMonkey]

Oh geez can you imagine if the Internet had been around when Anne Frank was alive? That diary would have been a lot shorter but at least it would been online and she could have liveblogged the whole Holocaust to the rest of the world:

6 June 1944
I see the world gradually being turned into a wasteland. I hear the ever approaching thunder which will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions of people and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I somehow feel that all this will come right again, that also this savagery will stop, that there will be peace and tranquillity in the world once again.
Until that time, I must hold onto my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I'll still be able to realise them.
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July 1, 1944
If I'm watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I so would like to be, and what I could be, if, there weren't any other people living in the world.
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Re:all in the name of '9-11'

[TubeSteak]

that 'goddamn piece of paper' as our beloved leader calls it. That "quote" keeps getting brought up, probably because it jives with your perceptions of President Bush.

AFAIK he never said that.
Here's what I had to say about it in Oct of 2006
Here's what factcheck.org has to say about it

The guy writing capitolhillblue has a history of bullshit, retracted the story, then put it back online even though no one else could substantiate his story and every other blogger on the internet apologized for repeating it.

Stop repeating one man's lie.