Op-Ed: NSA has a special fusion center in Mexican U.S. embassy

[Judi Lynn]

Op-Ed: NSA has a special fusion center in Mexican U.S. embassy
By Ken Hanly
Feb 25, 2014 - 4 hours ago

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Recently, a declassified memo shows that the NSA actually has a secret office in the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. The facility is called a fusion center used to combine and then share intelligence with different agencies. Many already exist in the U.S. itself. The centers were developed after 9/11 as a response to the lack of sharing of information by different government agencies:

They are designed to promote information sharing at the federal level between agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. military, and state- and local-level government. As of July 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recognized at least 72 fusion centers.

The fusion center in Mexico City was confirmed by a 2010 Dept. of Defense memorandum obtained by a George Washington University group under the Freedom of Information Act.

Although there are also joint U.S./Mexican intelligence centers the fusion center in the U.S. embassy was off limits to Mexicans. Support for the center comes from the Department of Defense and is channeled through the US Northern Command (NORTH-COM) that is responsible for protecting American interests in North America.

More:
http://digitaljournal.com/news/politics/op-ed-nsa-has-special-fusion-center-in-mexico-usa-embassy/article/373088#ixzz2uPupoOGD

[Demeter]

1. And they arrest a drug king pin to justify it

I'm so not impressed. The Sinaloa will continue...as will the NSA.