Following my story yesterday on Iowa’s Intelligence Fusion Center, our sister site, The Colorado Independent, today published the third in a nationwide series of stories focusing on the domestic intelligence network that has quietly emerged in America since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Erin Rosa takes a look at the Colorado Information Analysis Center (CIAC) and what role it will play in the Democratic National Convention, scheduled next month in Denver.

When the Democratic National Convention is held in August, CIAC will be operating 24 hours a day and be fully staffed with up to eight intelligence analysts at any given time.

“CIAC is going to be expanding hours for physical presence in the office,” Clem says about the convention. “Any known threats specifically related to the convention are going to go right to the United States Secret Service and FBI, but CIAC is going to be there to take any reports that citizens have.”

Since fusion centers around the country have gone largely unexamined by the mainstream media, The Iowa Independent and its sister sites in Minnesota, Colorado, Michigan and New Mexico will each release a report on activity in their state throughout the week.