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...Union address in January that Bush asked for the creation of a single independent center to coordinate all terrorist threats. The center finally opened a few months ago, after weeks of predictable bureaucratic warfare. Housed temporarily at the CIA, it is known around Washington as the TTIC--or TeeTick--for Terrorist Threat Integration Center. Home to 100 agents, analysts and computer whizzes from half a dozen agencies, the TTIC is supposed to be the four-chambered heart through which information passes from original source to all arms and legs of the governments--state, local and federal...