Mo Town News 11/28/2014
There Goes Roberts Supreme Court Culling
There Goes Roberts Supreme Court Culling
Aerial Police Attack While Printing Homework
at Fedex
Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program
created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about
innocent Americans and produced little valuable intelligence on terrorism, a
Senate report concludes. It portrays an effort that ballooned far beyond
anyone's ability to control.
What began as an attempt to put local, state and federal officials in the same
room analyzing the same intelligence has instead cost huge amounts of
money for data-mining software, flat screen televisions and, in Arizona, two
fully equipped Chevrolet Tahoes that are used for commuting, investigators
found.
The lengthy, bipartisan report is a scathing evaluation of what the Department of Homeland Security has held up as a crown jewel of its security efforts. The report underscores a reality of post-9/11 Washington:
National security programs tend to grow, never shrink, even when their money and manpower far surpass the actual subject of terrorism.
Much of this money went for
ordinary local crime-fighting. [Local Police Empires - Cooptation*]
NSA get the money back by My Grant Withers THE?
Read The Full Article: http://news.yahoo.com/intelligence-effort-named-citizens-not-terrorists-234755138.html
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