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  1. This report conceded that the intelligence center could not identify any specific threat — a contradiction that experts say speaks to the #overbroad #authority of state intelligence entities and the make-work required by these centers.

    “The performance metric is the number of reports you write, rather than the accuracy of them,” Mike German, a retired FBI agent who is now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, said of fusion centers.

    “What do you do after you write reports on realistic threats? Pretty soon you have to start writing about imaginary ones. Lots come straight from the fever swamps of social media.”

    theintercept.com/2023/04/11/ho