Our Post-9/11 Response Deprived Us of Liberty and Didn't Stop Terrorism. Let's Not Venerate or Expand It.
We don’t need new tools or agencies to track alleged domestic terrorists.
Fusion Centers
Fusion Center Issues New Statement on Its Warning That Police Should Watch Out for Don't-Tread-on-Me Flags
Many unanswered questions remain about both the bulletin and the DHS-funded intelligence-sharing operation that produced it.
Utah Fusion Center Warns Cops: Watch Out for Don't-Tread-on-Me Flags
With LaVoy Finicum's funeral being held today, Utah police are on the lookout for "armed extremists." What sort of advice are they getting?
Fusion Centers: Expensive and Dangerous to Our Liberty
A new report says they're fraught with waste and abuse and have whittled away at civil liberties protections.
Fusion Centers Questioned Over Effectiveness, Threat to Freedom
Spying and "crap intelligence"
Boston's Early Adopted Fusion Center Failed To Stop Bombing
The controversial intelligence programs aren't living up to their billing
Boston Police Chief: Feds Never Shared Warnings About Boston Bombers
Fusion centers again prove useless
Fusion Centers Spy on 'Anti-Government' Americans, Official Admits
Well, that's OK then
ACLU: Boston Police Spying on Lawful Activities
The Boston PD says it doesn't monitor First Amendment-protected group, though there is a fusion center in the city
Department of Homeland Security
Feds Wasting Money on Confusion Centers
DHS fusions centers are "predominantly useless."
Department of Homeland Security
Napolitano Implicated in Fusion Center Report
The DHS head is accused of misleading lawmakers about problems with the initiative
DHS Spread False Report of Hacking of Water Pump
Even though it knew it was false and criticized the fusion center that produced it
Fusion Centers: Expensive, Practically Useless, and Bad for Your Liberty
An explosive Senate report
Senate Report Slams DHS Intelligence "Fusion Centers"
Collected personal information about American citizens but produced nothing of value
Trickle Down Surveillance
The Pennsylvania spying scandal reveals a deeper problem with homeland security.
The Paranoid Center
How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent