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Understanding Fusion Centers
Loaded on March 15, 2024
by Michael Thompson
published in Criminal Legal News
March, 2024, page 1
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance,
Electronic Surveillance.
Locations:
Florida,
Hawaii,
Maine,
Virginia,
United States of America.
by Michael Dean Thompson
Introduction
After 9/11, authorities determined the event was possible due to a failure of the various intelligence agencies to communicate with each other and share their information, data, insights, and discoveries. In 2007, Eben Kaplan wrote for the Council on Foreign Relations that a clear example ...
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