FUSION CENTERS Not looking good for ‘fusion centers’ as Utah leads way to get them all shut down

… ISE serves as a conduit for the sharing of information gathered without a warrant. Known ISE partners include the Office of [the] Director of National Intelligence which oversees 17 federal agencies and organizations, including the NSA. ISE utilizes these partnerships to collect and share data on the millions of unwitting people they track. -Michael Maharrey, reporting journalist, Activist Post

October 2012 }} www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/media/investigative-report-criticizes-counterterrorism-reporting-waste-at-state-and-local-intelligence-fusion-centers [Extract] “It’s troubling that the very ‘fusion’ centers that were designed to share information in a post-9/11 world have become part of the problem. Instead of strengthening our counterterrorism efforts, they have too often wasted money and stepped on Americans’ civil liberties,” said Senator Tom Coburn, the Subcommittee’s ranking member who initiated the investigation.

April 2018 }} www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/apr/18/fusion-center-em [Extract] As part of my ongoing project looking at fusion centers’ investigations into Antifa and various white supremacist groups, I filed a request with the WSFC. I got back many standard documents in response, including emails, intelligence briefings and bulletins, reposts from other fusion centers - and then there was one file titled “EM effects on human body (dot) zip.”

March 2021 }} www.activistpost.com/2021/03/signed-as-law-utah-bill-creates-process-to-review-and-shut-down-surveillance-programs [Extract] Fusion centers were sold as a tool to combat terrorism, but that is not how they are being used. The ACLU pointed to a bipartisan congressional report to demonstrate the true nature of government fusion centers…

~Veronique W., Surveillance and Harassment Survivors Alliance PIN 1397