| Those stupid pajama-clad bloggers strike again. |
On a conference call this afternoon the FBI announced a reversal of their decision to cut off the intelligence sharing of information from the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC). The FBI shut down reporting to the 77 fusion centers on March 1st, and we reported on the shutdown yesterday.
The FBI had announced that they would be resuming the TSC reporting this coming Monday, but without the Personal Information Intelligence (PII) that fusion centers had previously had access to (as I updated on the article yesterday afternoon). Fusion center officials had said yesterday that resuming the TSC reports without the PII would be "effectively useless".
According to Sena, the TSC will be establishing a coordinating council to help improve relations between the FBI and the fusion centers, and to possibly plan even more enhanced intelligence sharing.
One fusion center official I spoke with this afternoon following the conference call said, "This is a stunning reversal. It's doubtful we would have gotten a 180 degree reversal from the FBI in less than 48 hours without the exposure from PJ Media." |