Rissnet

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RISSNET, or Regional Information Sharing System Network, founded before the September 11th attacks, got a boost when Congress authorized additional money for it in the USA PATRIOT Act (->) in October 2001. RISSNET is a secure intranet that connects 5,700 law enforcement agencies in all 50 US-states, as well as agencies in Ontario and Quebec, the District of Columbia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Australia. According to sources close to the Washington Metropolitan Police, data on targeted local groups such as the Alliance for Global Justice, the anti-World Bank/International Monetary Fund activist organization, has been shared with other jurisdictions through RISSNET. RISSNET has been used to coordinate the monitoring of the activities of anti-globalization protestors in Seattle, Quebec City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Genoa. For example, when the FBI seized network server logs from Independent Media Center (IMC->) in Seattle during the April 2001 anti-free trade protests in Quebec City, RISSNET was used to coordinate activities across jurisdictional boundaries. All RISS intelligence is archived by an Orwellian-sounding entity called MAGLOCLEN or "Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network Headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, MAGLOCLEN distributes political intelligence to all police departments hooked up to RISSNET. (See Cointelpro)