Local Law Enforcement "Centers" Using Intell For Non-Terrorist Related Law Enforcment

[kpete]

Intelligence Goes Local- Fusion Centers Go After Local Crime

Most centers are run by state police or other law enforcement agencies. Many also have representatives from a range of other agencies, including fire and public works departments and state gambling regulators. This has raised concerns about privacy as those agencies become linked to a broader intelligence-sharing network. Most of the centers also include federal officials such as analysts from the FBI and Homeland Security.

The centers potentially can tap into five separate federal databases containing case files on investigations, reports on suspicious incidents and research material on terrorist weapons and tactics.

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The White House published a strategy paper advising centers to share information about all criminal activity, saying that could help uncovered potential terrorist plots.

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Administration officials defended the centers and said encompassing all sorts of crimes in the intelligence dragnet is the best way to catch terrorists. To Jack Tomarchio, a senior intelligence official at the Homeland Security Department, that is not a bad thing. “In many cases, there’s also a nexus between criminality and terrorism,” Tomarchio said. “Terrorists, like anybody else, need money to do their deeds.” Often, he said, that means terrorists will be involved in narcotics trafficking and similar crimes.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_go_co/intelligence_centers;_ylt=AjfReQuPfONO82GcDx5wr2qs0NUE

[Echo In Light]

1. "Anti-terror" measures and legislation have ZERO to do with terrorism

[IDemo]

2. Just fill in the blank and generate your own TerraNexus®

“In many cases, there’s also a nexus between _________ and terrorism”

Criticizing Chimpolini, voting Democratic, reading DU,,,

[Echo In Light]

3. Precisely. Which is why the terminology is always intentionally ambiguous

[Hubert Flottz]

4. The plot sickens...

Big brother bush and the higher up GOPer cronies and goon squads will soon totally run your life, from the cradle to the grave and all points in between. Give them an inch and they'll take ALL your freedom, liberty and pride and give you lies, fear, disease, heartache, poverty, pain and more pain, in return.

It's about total control and domination of the "lower class"("Untermensch")or under-employed working class in America. The "have mores" and the 'bout have it alls, want it every last bit and they want it right freakin' now. Bush has let the Fascist/Old Money Crony Corps element in America take over just about everything of any value and now, they won't stop until they know every dirty little secret that everyone in America may have. The more they know about your private life, the more they can control you life.

I thought the GOP was the party of less government...but that's a huge lie, just like their tall story about them to a man, or woman, devoutly living at the foot of the cross and praying to gawd every day is. They want to invade your privacy just like Prescott Bush's domineering cronies and business partners the Nazis did in Germany, or the Secret Police did in the USSR. It's about total government domination in the end...and it's not going to be a very happy ending here, just like it wasn't happy for Germany or the USSR.

Trust them...why they don't trust we the people anymore...won't even trust our votes we cast anymore and discard them, then appoint their own AWOL, dope and booze addled Dictator... My dad ALWAYS told me that TRUST and RESPECT have both got to be two way streets. I always trusted and respected my Dad.

If your congress person won't protect and defend your rights...then it's time for you to look for someone who will to elect. The lesser of two weasels is still a freakin' weasel! Going along to get along, with "Brother Bush" has worked about as well as it did with Big Brother Adolf and Big Brother Joseph.

Sorry 'Bout the rant...sorrier still about the alarming state of the "Union"

[tom_paine]

5. Oh Hubert, don't you know we are just a bunch of crazy melodramatic alarmist

All we have to do is wait patiently and not rock the boat until Nov. 2008, where everything will be made instantly fine again!

Actually, I become more convinced every day that Sen. Clinton has been selected for us (the idea that we Filthy Little Nobodies have even the tiniest iota of voice or say with our "votes" is laughable) only to provide the only candidate who will make it close enough to steal for the Designated Imperial Successor, which from the joining of Jeb's son, the Prince and Loyal Bushie Vassal Pat Robertson, Rudy 9/11ani.

I hope I am wrong, but don't expect the Bushies to let us "win" like they did in 2006 (only because doing more than diminsihing the Democratic landslide would have crushed people's even minimal belief that voting wasn't rigged) because the Imperial Throne is another matter than letting the "opposition" barely take care of the Congress, which is now essentially a ceremonial organization without power.

Anyway, you Crazy Liberal Moonbat, stop believing the evidence of your own eyes and start believing and obeying the TV!

[Hubert Flottz]

6. I got you covered dude!

Just because the head rigger with the secret "math" went back to Texas, don't mean it won't be rigged again. At least 30% of the votes will still cast be on Karl's crooked machines, next year!

I wouldn't trust ANY republican, in a shithouse with a muzzle on...especially Mr. Holier than you and me, Larry Craig types.(who has been forgiven...but remember, any and all subsequent forgiveness, is reserved solely, for the very top GOP haves and the have mores, American Untermensch, need not apply)

Things never look rosy for long with a republican at the controls.

[Echo In Light]

9. Ha...excellent post

After the blatant election 'theft' {doesn't it require two to tango?} of 00 and 04, I too found the sudden dem "victory" of 06 more than just a tad suspicious. Think of it as a purge valve for an ever increasingly angry electorate. That's the crux of the American experiment: few are willing to comprehend that the entire thing is a hoax, a rigged game.

[endarkenment]

7. The house of our Republic is infested with termites.

There is only one solution to this problem.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. The light of day?

The unvarnished truth?

[endarkenment]

10. Tear it down and rebuild it. nt.

[Uncle Joe]

11. The "War on Terror" can never end, anymore than the "War on Drugs" will ever end..

There will always be something or somebody to be afraid of, that's the true meaning of the "War on Terror" and if the American People are fearful, they can easily be molded or manipulated as any other people on the planet could be by an abusive government. The term "War on Terror" serves another purpose as well, it allows the government to wage war against anyone by simply labeling them an enemy combatant and all individual rights are severely diminished if not lost altogether. Likewise the "War on Drugs" only serve as an excuse for our ultra secretive supposedly representative government; for which we have no right to know their inner workings as in secret energy meetings with oil barons and Cheney, to totally invade any sense of the American People's privacy or freedom.

The very term "war" gives the government extraordinary powers and that's what they're really all about, abusing that term with the end goal of total control of the American People. It was a very natural progression for the government to chip away at the American People's supposed freedom or privacy using the "War on Terror" as the latest excuse because they had already conditioned the American People to accept a Big Brother government decades ago with the never ending nonsensical term of "The War Against Drugs".

It's literally impossible to fight a war against drugs, as it's impossible to fight a war against fear or terror, although an abusive government can fight a war against the American People's privacy and freedom. Marijuana literally doesn't give a damn if it's burned as a Doobie, in a bong or in a police confiscated bonfire. Fear or terror doesn't give a damn either, because the longer a war against an impossible to defeat enemy goes on, the more fearful the people become. In both cases our short sighted government never tried to understand the root cause of the problems or better yet, they didn't care.

If the American People were treated as adults by their representative government in stead of children, drug abuse would be treated as a medical problem; the same as alcoholism, not a criminal one, unless violence, theft or neglect of one's children were involved. We have more people in prison in the supposed land of the free than any other nation on the planet, I believe it was approximately two million the last time I heard, a large percent of them for non-violent drug offenses and a disproportionate number of minorities. I don't believe it was a coincidence that it was a large percentage of innocent minorities that were purged from the voter rolls in Florida for supposedly being felons that enabled this current group of corrupt incompetent freedom abusive "leaders" to power during the selection of 2000 in the first place.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[redqueen]

13. Kucinich would end both.

Too bad we will end up being forced to vote for one of the 'realistic' choices.

[DCKit]

12. What if they accidently uncover a massive right-wing drug and gun-running op?

Wouldn't THAT be a hoot!