Report: Poor coordination threatens security

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Report: Poor coordination threatens security
Investigators say agencies fall short on sharing information


Federal law enforcement officers respond to toll-free calls to the Department of Homeland Security in Williston, Vt., in July 2003. The Government Accountability Office said Tuesday that information related to national security should be shared more effectively among agencies.
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:40 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2005WASHINGTON - An “ineffective and fragmented” information-sharing process among all levels of government and the private sector is threatening homeland security, congressional investigators said Tuesday.



Additionally, U.S. Comptroller General David Walker said federal agencies — including the Homeland Security and Defense departments — may need to declassify some security intelligence to break down information roadblocks to state and local authorities.

“Many aspects of homeland security information sharing remain ineffective and fragmented,” said a report released by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

Although officials have begun paying more attention to information obstructions, investigators designated the issue as a “government-wide high-risk area” because it “still faces significant challenges,” the report said.


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Its looking like Homeland Security has been a disaster!!!

“We haven’t achieved the homeland security that the law requires us to achieve,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman

not sure what he's saying, but it sounds kind of scary

at this stage of analysis/change, what we end up with might be truly frightening, unimaginable, and the antithesis to our founding principles

just saying

"In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth of Personal Data"

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"We have a new responsibility to society, and we want to make sure
that's legitimized," Smith said. "We'd like everybody to play by the
same rules and standards that society believes are correct."

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In marketing materials distributed to government officials,
ChoicePoint says the system offers investigators "the ability to
access all relevant information with a single query."

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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012505_personal_data.shtml