Fusion Centers Questioned Over Effectiveness, Threat to Freedom
Spying and "crap intelligence"
PORTLAND – The funding for a data collection center aimed at identifying and defusing terrorist threats in Oregon is in flux.
The Oregon Terrorism Information Threat Assessment Network is one of several Federal Fusion Centers spread across 77 U.S. cities that collaborate with local law-enforcement agencies on suspected terrorist threats.
But from Portland to Boston the effectiveness of these centers, along with their potential to violate free speech and privacy rights, is being questioned. Federal lawmakers critical of the programs have accused the centers, an after effect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, of collecting "crap intelligence."
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