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We asked the Department of Homeland Security to provide information about how many analysts were devoted to working on non-Islamist domestic terrorism threats. Instead, we got a report on environmental extremists: rollingstone.com/politics/polit… 
In a confusing three-page cover letter attached to the records, DHS said its final response was the result of "a collaboration of thirteen analysis worked on domestic terrorism threats" — and that it could neither confirm nor deny whether any records existed.
Attached to that denial was an official report about "suspected environmental rights extremists" attempting to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
"DHS’s response is bewildering on several levels. ... Why a report on environmental extremism as opposed to a more serious threat like, say, white supremacy or anti-government ideology?" From @AndyKroll: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
