Report: Little oversight at terrorism watch centers

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Source: aljazeera

Report: Little oversight at terrorism watch centers

Study shows intelligence gathering at fusion centers is out of line with accepted standard of reasonable suspicion

There is little if any independent oversight of or consistency in information-gathering procedures at some of the nation’s largest police departments, joint terrorism task forces and fusion centers, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice.

The report, compiled from the findings from numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, reveals that there are large gaps in the local-federal intelligence-sharing systems that, the center says, pose a significant threat to national security and civil liberties.

“It’s organized chaos. That is the state of things at the moment,” said Michael Price, legal counsel at the Brennan Center and author of the report. “First is the lack of clear and consistent rules. Everyone has their own perception of what is suspicious, and what often happens is officers rely on their own biases and preconceptions.”

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/10/little-oversightconsistencyatnationsterrorismwatchcenters.html



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I love how the so called Main Stream Media hate AlJazeera News, NPR was bitched at a few weeks back and stopped reporting from Al Jazeera America, not because the news was wrong but because they are not walking lock step with the top propaganda news stations like Fox News run by a Australian with a MONSTROUS Agenda!

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1. Employees; 30,000 employees work at Ft. Meade and other facilities.

In 2012, the NSA said more than 30,000 employees work at Ft. Meade and other facilities.[1] In 2012 John C. Inglis, the deputy director, said that the total number of NSA employees is "somewhere between 37,000 and one billion" as a joke,[3] and stated that the agency is "probably the biggest employer of introverts."[3] In 2013 Der Spiegel stated that the NSA had 40,000 employees.[4] More widely, it has been described as the world's largest single employer of mathematicians.[86] Some NSA employees form part of the workforce of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the agency that provides the NSA with satellite signals intelligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

What the NSA costs taxpayers

The National Security Agency's activities are classified. And so is its annual budget.

The NSA is one of at least 15 intelligence agencies, and combined the total U.S. intelligence budget in 2012 was $75 billion

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillance-cost/index.html

The Reason "Given" to start NSA was to have FBI/CIA Etc. able to talk to each other, What a F'n Joke!

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2. K&R