<p><img src="images/stories/slashdot.jpg" border="0" alt="Slashdot" hspace="7" align="left" />PolygamousRanchKid writes with news of a Senate report on just <em>how</em> ineffective those DHS "<a href="http://www.dhs.gov/state-and-major-urban-area-fusion-centers">Fusion centers</a>" have proven to be. From the article: <em>"The lengthy, bipartisan report is a scathing evaluation of what the Department of Homeland Security has held up as a crown jewel of its security efforts. ... Because of a convoluted grants process set up by Congress, Homeland Security officials don't know how much they have spent in their decade-long effort to set up so-called fusion centers in every state. ... 'The subcommittee </em><a href="http://www.nctimes.com/news/national/intelligence-effort-named-citizens-not-terrorists/article_2fc79bd3-3ed7-55e9-b21d-5f04527775a2.html"><em>investigation could identify no reporting which uncovered a terrorist threat</em></a><em>, nor could it identify a contribution such fusion center reporting made to disrupt an active terrorist plot,' the report said. When fusion centers did address terrorism, they sometimes did so in ways that infringed on civil liberties. The centers have made headlines for circulating information about Ron Paul supporters, the ACLU, activists on both sides of the abortion debate, war protesters, and advocates of gun rights."  </em><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/03/1224226/report-slams-dhs-fusion-centers-no-terrorists-nabbed-civil-rights-violated" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-size: small;">SLASHDOT</span></span></strong></a></p>