The new report highlights a number of disturbing fusion center-related intelligence gathering incidents from across the country – the risk assessment report released by the Virginia Fusion Center noting that student groups at historically black colleges were breeding grounds for terrorism; a Missouri-based center's report that support for Ron Paul's presidential bid was a sign of membership in a domestic terrorist group; the federal government's direction to the Oakland, Calif., police department that it would be required to question Muslim-Americans based on a policy it "refused to provide" to the local police department.
Ultimately, the report suggests a number of areas for reform, including in data collection and storage, private sector partnerships, oversight, and redress procedures.
You can find the entire report here.
