Russell Porter

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Iowa Fusion Center director given international civil rights award

Russell Porter, director of Iowa’s Intelligence Fusion Center, received the 2008 Civil Rights Award for individual achievement from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

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.”

Fox profiles Iowa fusion center

The Fox News Channel has followed up on an Iowa Independent story published late last month about the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center.

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 reported on activity in their [...]

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.