Trying to find operating budget from non-DHS sources for the Virginia Fusion Center. Looks to be ~$10m/annually as a guess.
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With that budget, they once dropped a hard-hitting report sourced from... reddithttps://publicintelligence.net/vfc-violent-protesters-reddit/ …
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Fusion centers are not, uh, very useful nor do they represent the will of the DHS. https://www.google.is/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://publicsurveillance.com/papers/FC-Regan_Monahan_Publius.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjw_Ny4lIfWAhVEUlAKHUIhAeQ4ChAWCDQwAw&usg=AFQjCNE5RzHHWEG0vzsduHoYEUqJqILOew …pic.twitter.com/12rR2nP43y
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If I could pull this shit up in an hour in my spare time, imagine what a Politico reported could have pulled up as part of his job.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
why it's almost like politico didn't even try honest journalism and are instead engaged in a different endeavour altogether
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Replying to @burnstand @EmilyGorcenski
I know it couldn't be true...Trying to say fusion centers aren't that big of a deal. My god the ignorance/subversion/cognitive dissonance...
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Replying to @VirusJoeKnows @burnstand
Fusion centers are like twitter, low signal to noise ratio. Maybe useful, but all are different so impossible to generalize
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The Boston FC missed the Marathon bombing. other FCs troll reddit. They're info exchange, that's all.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @burnstand
Now your conflating two different things. The problem is they get so much info that they can't not analyze including infinity metadata
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Replying to @VirusJoeKnows @burnstand
I'm not conflating anything. I'm saying the politico argument misrepresents the report's seriousness. it does.
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The DHS is likely not surveilling locals who have committed petty non-violent crimes and deciding they're suddenly extremists.
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