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Official narrative

Fusion Centers are to facilitate the sharing of information to reduce that danger of "terrorism".

Alternative view

Although demonstrably ineffective in fighting "terrorism", the US model has been repeated in several other countries worldwide. This requires an explanation, and Fusion centers may perhaps most accurately be understood as an attempt to facilitate the control of the deep state by bypassing existing governmental structures. Their often nebulous nature facilitates plausible deniability and easier dodging of legal responsibilities such as FOIA requests.[1]

Ineffectiveness of their stated aim

A two-year investigation by the US senate found that "the fusion centers often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting to DHS, and many produced no intelligence reporting whatsoever." [2][3] The report also said that in some cases the fusion centers violated civil liberties or privacy.[4]

Mission creep

The ACLU writes that "for many [Fusion Centers] the scope of their mission has quickly expanded - with the support and encouragement of the federal government - to cover "all crimes and all hazards." The types of information they seek for analysis has also broadened over time to include not just criminal intelligence, but public and private sector data, and participation in these centers has grown to include not just law enforcement, but other government entities, the military and even select members of the private sector."[5]

 

An example

Page nameDescription
InfraGardProgram to turn private-sector corporations - having access to enormous amounts of information on citizens - into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI.

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Chief of Defence Intelligence at RUSI 180518speech summary24 May 2018Euan GrantThere need to be exponential growths in information operations [..] and in cooperation with offensive cyber ops.
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References

  1. Document:Unthinking extremism - Radicalising narratives that legitimise surveillance
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  3. US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (October 3, 2012). "Investigative Report Criticizes Counterterrorism Reporting, Waste at State & Local Intelligence Fusion Centers".Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  4. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/03/senate_report_says_national_intelligence_fusion_centers_have_been_useless
  5. https://www.aclu.org/report/whats-wrong-fusion-centers-executive-summary