Romney Was Big Booster Of Failed Homeland Security Effort

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Mitt Romney Was Pivotal Advocate For Homeland Security 'Fusion Centers' Slammed In New Report

A devastating new report that found homeland security officials have wasted perhaps billions of dollars on intelligence-gathering complexes known as fusion centers that haven't detected a single terrorist threat, even as they invaded citizens' privacy, could present another political headache for one of their biggest advocates: Mitt Romney.

Romney played a pivotal role in promoting the establishment of these counterterrorism centers across the country to "connect the dots" and stave off another 9/11, as The Huffington Post reported in May. In his role as chairman of a national task force on intelligence sharing, the then-Massachusetts governor used his bully pulpit to call for a nationwide network that would meld together local, state and federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to detect threats.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/mitt-romney-homeland-security_n_1935308.html