Legal Commentary

Feds Building Database on People Acting Suspiciously

By Jeralyn

The Washington Post has an ominous report on a huge domestic intelligence database being built by the feds and shared with state and local law enforcement.

The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States.

The Post dubs it Top Secret America and shows how it plays out state by state. Check your state out here.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).