-Napolitano: Internet Monitoring Needed to Fight Homegrown Terrorism.

WASHINGTON — Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday. As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to constantly balance Americans’ civil rights and privacy with the need to keep people safe, [...]

-State fusion centers look to expand beyond counterterrorism efforts.

Federal Computer Week : … That’s the principle behind fusion centers: Put data in a form that analysts can turn into useful information that contributes to improved decision-making. Fusion centers combine data from various sources — primarily federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, but also other repositories, such as driver’s license databases — and [...]

-CIA: Improving Homeland Security at the State Level

Needed is a single, integrated intelligence enterprise with well-defined lanes-in-the-road for each large, complicated state like New York. Read CIA site

-CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System.

Anti-Fascist Calling: It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the explosive growth of these technologies. One can be certain however, securocrats aren’t tweeting their restaurant preferences or finalizing plans for after work drinks. No, researchers on both sides of the Atlantic [...]

-DHS opens new cybersecurity center.

Government Computer News: The Homeland Security Department opened a new operations center today that integrates national cybersecurity and telecommunications monitoring systems and provides a new degree of situational awareness surrounding the nation’s communications, information technology and cyber infrastructure. The new National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), combines two of DHS’ operational organizations: the U.S. [...]