Feds to start sharing terrorism data
New York and Vermont cops will get access to watch lists

(CNN) — State and local police in New York and Vermont will soon have instant access to federal counterterrorism data under an FBI-run pilot program that could become a new weapon in the war on terrorism, officials announced Tuesday.

FBI Director Robert Mueller and New York Gov. George Pataki said the initiative will enable beat cops to check watch lists of suspected terrorists and other information stored in databases maintained by the FBI, CIA, State Department, Customs and other agencies.

So have they just been twiddling their thumbs for the last three years? I thought the whole idea of the Homeland Security Nazis was to make law enforcement types work together (for a change). What a freakin’ waste.