Since its creation in March 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created an immense immigration database that is now integrated with the FBI's criminal database, all of which is now shared with local law-enforcement officials. The resulting information system is the main instrument of the immigrant crackdown that is detaining and deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants, and legal immigrants who have criminal records.
But when it comes to protecting the homeland, the massive DHS information and intelligence-sharing system is largely dysfunctional. Even within the special DHS division to fuse federal, local, and private information, the system fails to share information and intelligence.
Dysfunctional Information and Intel Operations at Homeland Security
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The study's two central conclusions present a blistering criticism of the blundering department. According to the OIG:
1)"NOC is negatively affected by organizational issues such as not having requisite authority, ambiguities in its mission, and an unclear chain of command."
2)"The overall focus of the NOC shifts between emergency management, terrorism prevention, and law enforcement."
What a clusterfuck and not the hope and change we were looking for from Pres Obama