Terrorism Center Wrestles Technology, Secrecy

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. government debates changing the intelligence structure, a fledgling center created to provide "one-stop shopping" for terrorism information is wrestling with issues of technology and secrecy.

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The Terrorist Threat Integration Center, referred to as TTIC, is trying to meld the cultures, technology and secrets of various agencies so that its analysts can sift through terrorism information scattered around the government and try to piece together a coherent picture.

The center combines personnel from the CIA, FBI, and departments of defense, state and homeland security as well as other agencies. It maintains a database of known and suspected international terrorists that has over 100,000 names in it and a top secret Web site available to 2,600 users who can search through 3.5 million documents.

"We're still in a growing stage and so one-stop shopping for everything for the U.S. government implies almost a full-up capability, we're not there yet," John Brennan, director of TTIC, said in an interview at his office at the CIA.

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more: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4975560

After reading the article...doubtful the gov't will ever get this shit undercontrol. :(