How 'bout checking dates before stating something untrue? - backwards typist

I'll have to read the HuffPo again but didn't the written story report that Mitt talked to Homeland Security about setting fusion centers up in 2004??? HuffPo is making the suggestion that Romney was the one who had this idea, started them in MA all by himself and THEN went to DHS to set these centers up all over the country. Not so. So again, HuffPo is desperately trying to degrade Romney as much as they can.

Note the dates below.

Romney's speech in NH was in 2008. Romney was governor from 2003 to 2007. Fusion centers were created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as the best way to get local, state and federal officials to share terrorism-related information, speak with each other and “connect the dots” of terrorist plots before they happened.

The nation’s network of anti-terrorism “fusion centers” for law enforcement have produced shoddy, untimely and often useless intelligence reports that have done little to keep the U.S. safer, a scathing U.S. Senate report concludes and the 141-page report identified problems with nearly every significant aspect of the Department of Homeland Security’s more than 70 fusion centers, which were designed for law enforcement to coordinate their intelligence gathering. The report found that intelligence and analysis often produced "intelligence spam" that relied on stale information and provided little valuable analysis, and which was widely ignored by federal counterterrorism officials.

There was a lack of oversight so those centers spent money wildly, including a San Diego fusion center that bought 55 flat-screen televisions at a cost of $75,000 to watch the news and display calendars. Some are only "on paper." They shelled out millions of dollars for a Phila. center but the money was froze because IT DID NOT PHYSICALLY EXIST!

Homeland Security officials couldn’t account for how much money was spent on the centers, with estimates ranging from $290 million-$1.4 billion!

The investigation also found that the department only required intelligence officials to take a five-day course before they were sent to the fusion centers to write reports on sensitive domestic intelligence, often concerning people in the U.S.