President Bush announced during his State of the Union address the implementation of a new government data-mining program called the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. From his speech, “Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, the CIA, the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location.”
According to a White House fact sheet on the program, Strengthening Intelligence to Better Protect America, “This new center will merge and analyze terrorist-related information collected domestically and abroad in order to form the most comprehensive possible threat picture…..The Administration will ensure that this program is carried out consistently with the rights of Americans.”
See also this ACLU press release, ACLU Says New Intelligence Umbrella Agency Poses Serious Questions.