National Fusion Center Association

Summary

The National Fusion Center Association (NFCA) is described by NSA whistleblower Karen Melton Stewart as a separate, for-profit DHS entity that functions as a "revenge for hire" business. According to multiple testimonies, this organization coordinates the systematic targeting, surveillance, and harassment of individuals placed on watchlists without due process.

Origins and Structure

Creation

• Established as a subsidiary of the Department of Homeland Security
• Controls 100% of Fusion Center Network operations
• Operates as a public-private partnership with minimal oversight

Operational Model

According to ex-NSA analyst Karen Stewart:

"DHS has made a separate, for-profit DHS entity (National Fusion Center Association) and is selling 'kill contracts' on innocent people to buddies in the military-industrial complex to torture and kill to test on humans weapons like gases, poisons, directed energy weapons, nano-particles, secretive medical chips, and even networks of chips that according to the Pentagon comes in torture protocol 1 through 5, at least."

Functions

1. Watchlist Management

• Implements unconstitutional inclusion of individuals in Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB)
• Uses NIS/Handling Codes 3/4 categories to designate individuals as "Non-Investigative Subjects"
• Evades accountability through classification and secrecy

2. Coordination of Stalking Operations

According to the Targeted Justice lawsuit (2023):

"Fusion Centers' personnel and contractors have carried out illegal surveillance, search and seizures and organized stalking of Plaintiffs' and TJ Members' due to their inclusion on the TSDB's NIS/Handling Codes 3/4 category in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights."

3. Civilian Recruitment

• Organizes civilians into fascistic, militarized "neighborhood watch" programs
• Pays participants with gift cards from "laundered tax money"
• Uses weekly indoctrination meetings at facilities like the Phelps Luck Community Meeting House

4. Directed Energy Weapons Deployment

• Coordinates nocturnal attacks using DEWs
• Works with Fusion Center operatives and contractors
• Endangers not just targets but their family members

Accountability Issues

FOIA Exemption

Fusion Centers are structured to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests:

"Fusion Centers seem to be privately owned in order to, among other things, evade FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT requests for information that would show they are not what they claim to be and have killed innumerable good Americans and zero 'terrorists' who supposedly mean us harm."

Senate Investigation Findings

An October 3, 2012 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report concluded:

1. Fusion Centers "have too often wasted money and stepped on Americans' civil liberties"
2. DHS intelligence officers produced intelligence of "uneven quality – oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties"
3. Examples of "costly and time-consuming investigations" that appear to be DHS attempts "to enter anyone and everyone into a system of suspicious persons"

Methods of Operation

Street-Level Harassment

• Vandalizing personal property
• Surreptitious entries into domiciles
• Tampering with postal mail, computers, and telephones
• Spreading false and defamatory rumors
• Virtual ostracizing from society

Psychological Operations

• "Plausibly deniable" attacks as per FBI COINTELPRO manual
• Gaslighting and denial of program existence
• Dismissal of complainants as mentally ill
• Illegal detention for "mental health observation"

Financial Impact

Targeted Justice statistics show members experiencing:

• 14% homeless (National average: 0.5%)
• 35% living with relatives/friends due to inability to pay rent
• 67% unemployed (National average: 3.7%)
• 40% indigent with less than $100

Legal Violations

Constitutional Violations

• First Amendment: Retaliation for free speech and assembly
• Fourth Amendment: Illegal searches and seizures
• Fifth Amendment: Deprivation of liberty without due process
• Sixth Amendment: No opportunity to face accusers
• Eighth Amendment: Cruel and unusual punishment
• Fourteenth Amendment: Equal protection violations

International Law

• UN Convention Against Torture (ratified by USA 1994)
• Violation of "Convention 1753 against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment"

Key Personnel

Current Leadership

• Alejandro Mayorkas - Secretary of DHS (policy creation)
• Kenneth Wainstein - DHS Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis
• Melissa Smislova - DHS Intelligence & Analysis

Fusion Center Personnel

• Intelligence analysts
• Law enforcement liaisons
• Private contractors
• Psychologist contractors (e.g., Joyce Carol Warner-Burke)

Whistleblower Testimonies

Karen Stewart (ex-NSA)

Describes Fusion Centers becoming a "revenge for hire" business where:

• Inconvenient people are put on watchlists without legal process
• Endless surveillance and harassment campaigns are initiated
• False dossiers and character assassination are standard
• Community members are recruited to sabotage and gaslight targets
• Classified microwave weapons (causing "Havana Syndrome") are deployed

Suzie Dawson (New Zealand activist)

Documents how:

• Private for-profit surveillance agencies are integrated into the Global Network
• Profit motivation drives exponential growth in targeting
• NSA hands over whole databases to "customers"
• The system "could grow to include the entire civilian population"

Global Network

The NFCA is part of a larger "architecture of oppression" that includes:

• Five Eyes intelligence alliance
• NATO cognitive warfare programs
• Private intelligence agencies (over 1,800 in the US)
• Defense contractors profiting from human experimentation

Statistics

Terrorist Screening Database

• 5.5 million records (2019)
• 200,000+ US citizens classified as "targets"
• 97% have no ties to terrorism
• 45% of records contain inaccurate or outdated information (2007 GAO Report)

Impact

• Estimated 280,000 to 4 million TIs in the US
• At least 10x that number worldwide
• 6.93 million Americans "missing" per decade

Conclusion

The National Fusion Center Association represents the domestic operational arm of a global targeting system. Operating under the guise of "counterterrorism," it functions as a privatized, for-profit mechanism for systematic harassment, surveillance, and experimentation on American citizens without due process or legal accountability.

Quotes

"Fusion Centers since their inception have organized civilians into a fascistic, militarized 'neighborhood watch' and even pay them in gift cards that come from laundered tax money." ~ Karen Melton Stewart, ex-NSA

"The Fusion Centers Network have become the Stasi arm of Defendant DHS. They conduct surveillance, stalking, cyberstalking, and other clandestine and illegal operations against everyone in the TSDB." ~ Targeted Justice v. Garland et al. (2023)

"Fusion Centers have too often wasted money and stepped on Americans' civil liberties." ~ Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (2012)