The Department of Homeland Security operates 77 "Fusion Centers" around the nation. These Centers collect intelligence from several different agencies and combine them into one intelligence report. This "information sharing" was supposedly the best way to fight terrorism.

However, a Senate report now exposes the monster program that is Fusion Centers, costing America over 1.4 Billion dollars a year and producing nothing but "crap intelligence" and violations of civil liberties and the Privacy Act:

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/02/14187433-homeland-security-fusion-centers-spy-on-citizens-produce-shoddy-work-report-says?lite