Domestic Intelligence, Commercial World

Police around the country are working with commercial technology companies to create information-sharing networks, anchored to data warehouses, that open the way for new ways of enforcing the law and looking for signs of terrorist threats.

Federal plans call for a national network that eventually will link those systems together, enabling federal counterterrorism and intelligence analysts to automatically access and parse local and state records for the first time. That system, under construction by the Justice Department, is set to begin linking to local and state police agencies this month.

The essence of it: an emerging domestic intelligence system.

Here's today's story in The Washington Post.

By Robert O'Harrow |  March 6, 2008; 11:39 AM ET intelligence
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