The Pentagon has been pushing legislation that would allow the FBI to share information about US citizens with the military, the CIA and other intelligence agencies, so long as that information is connected to foreign intelligence.
The White House wants this to strengthen investigations into terrorism or the threat against America of weapons of mass destruction.
The Pentagon is already busy in the intelligence field in the US.
They established “Northcom”- out in Colorado Springs -right after 9/11 to react to terrorist threats in the US.
NorthCom (or Northern Command) has intelligence centers in Colorado and Texas with almost 300 intelligence analysts employed, about 200 more than currently work at the State Departments intelligence office,and some few more than the entire Department of Homeland Security.
Each of the military services has quietly begun its own post-9/11 collection of domestic intelligence, that is, within the US-all aimed at gathering information on potential threats to military bases and people in the US and abroad.
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