Small Wars Journal

Go Figure: DHS ‘Fusion Centers’ Portrayed as Pools of Waste

Tue, 10/02/2012 - 9:33pm

DHS ‘Fusion Centers’ Portrayed as Pools of Waste by Robert O’Harrow Jr., Washington Post.

An initiative aimed at improving intelligence sharing has done little to make the country more secure, despite as much as $1.4 billion in federal spending, according to a two-year examination by Senate investigators.

The nationwide network of offices known as “fusion centers” was launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to address concerns that local, state and federal authorities were not sharing information effectively about potential terrorist threats...