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No Surprise Here: 'Fusion' Centers Losing Anti-Terror Focus

An AP newswire article by Eileen Sullivan, via Google News, reports that:

Local intelligence-sharing centers set up after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have had their anti-terrorism mission diluted by a focus on run-of-the-mill street crime and hazards such as hurricanes, a government report concludes.

Of the 43 "fusion centers" already established, only two focus exclusively on preventing terrorism, the Government Accountability Office found in a national survey obtained by The Associated Press. Center directors complain that they were hampered by lack of guidance from Washington and they were flooded by often redundant information from multiple computer systems.

posted by Fergie @ 11/28/2007 02:09:00 PM