WHAT: Protest against fusion centers
WHERE: Behind the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) at One Schroeder Plaza, Roxbury, MA (On the grass behind the police station, on the Southwest Corridor Park, very close to the Ruggles stop on the Orange line)
WHEN: April 10, 2PM
President Bush at the newly-opened CIA National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), one of the many post-9/11 surveillance and information sharing operations that failed to stop the Boston marathon attacks in April 2013.
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Al Jazeera America did a two-part special on license plate readers, location tracking, and government employee abuse of databases. It's well worth watching.
Later today I'll post a much longer blog examining in detail the House Homeland Security Committee's report on the failures that led to the Boston marathon attacks. For now, I simply want to highlight something that jumped out at me.
If you've been paying attention to the events surrounding the May 22, 2013 law enforcement killing of Ibragim Todashev, you may know that FBI officials conducted close surveillance of the former friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev for weeks before an agent killed him. Now we know a little more about that surveillance.
