Flutterby™! :

So you've undoubtedly heard about these "Fusion Center"s set up by the U.S. Department of Fatherland Homeland Security and the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, to share information between domestic intelligence agencies in their spying on U.S. citizens?

Arkansas State Fusion Center Director Richard Davis confirms our fears:

"There's misconceptions on what fusion centers are," he says. "The misconceptions are that we are conducting spying operations on US citizens, which is of course not the fact. That is absolutely not what we do."

[snip]

"We focus a little more on that, domestic terrorism and certain groups that are anti-government," he says. "We want to kind of take a look at that and receive that information."

The cognitive dissonance, it burrrnsss.

Via RT: Fusion center director: We don’;t spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans. Alt link: Reason is apparently parroting the RT article, and though both mention the NWAHomepage article (and, before anyone else says it, yes I have trouble reading that as anything but "with attitude", but it's the KNWA-TV/Fox-24 TV station), neither actually links to it.