Washington Post sheds more light on Fusion Centers in Massachusetts, nationwide

Both here in Massachusetts and across the country, the ACLU has been working to tell more people about the Fusion Centers: massive government clearinghouses of data on all of us. The Washington Post has done a story which sheds more light on exactly what kinds of data the Fusion Centers are pulling together.

One quoted source in the story says, "There is never ever enough information when it comes to terrorism." But there can be. As ACLU Policy Counsel and former FBI Special Agent Mike German has said, when you're looking for a needle in a haystack, it doesn't help to make the haystack bigger. The 9/11 attacks didn't happen because we didn't have the information we needed -- it's that the information we had wasn't followed through on.