Civil Liberties

Iowa intelligence chief goes to Washington

Russell Porter, director of the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center, will testify before Congress today during a hearing titled “A Report Card on Homeland Security Information Sharing.”

Iowa’s intelligence fusion center ‘connects the dots’

On the third floor of an unnamed building in the shadow of the state Capitol sits the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center, an organization tasked with helping to stop future acts of terrorism.

Iowa fusion center part of nationwide series

My lead story today on the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center follows Minnesota Independent’s investigation of their fusion center, the Minnesota Joint Analysis Center, published yesterday.
In “You don’t know MN-JAC,” reporter Dan Haugen found that the agency, created in the wake of 9/11 to collect and analyze suspicious activity reports from across Minnesota, is [...]

Iowa Senators Split on FISA

A controversial bill on the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program that won approval yesterday in the U.S. Senate split the votes of Iowa Sens. Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley.

The bill overhauls rules on secret government eavesdropping and shields phone companies from lawsuits for their role in the program.