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6 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Final draft of DHS's Homeland Threat Assessment is issued. Like earlier drafts, white supremacy is described as "the most persistent and lethal threat to the Homeland.

Russia is the "likely primary covert influence actor and purveyor of disinformation." cbsnews.com/news/china-rus…
Here's the report: dhs.gov/publication/20…
We've reported on earlier versions of the threat assessment multiple times this month.

nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/…

nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/…

nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/…
And the whistleblower allegations that senior homeland security officials attempted to downplay it.

nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/…
POLITICO's @woodruffbets and @benjaminwittes reported on one of the earliest drafts of the HTA.

politico.com/news/2020/09/0…

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3 Oct
Good piece here on the $10m in grants recently issued by DHS. Some add context: DHS's anti-terrorism office went from a budget of more than $20m under Obama admin to less than 3 mill in the early years of Trump. McAleenan made it a point to secure the add. funds last year
Some more on that: nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/…
The 10 mil issued was announced in DHS's DT public action report issued last month (about six months late). We're still waiting on the Homeland Threat Assessment that the former DHS intel chief has accused Chad Wolf and and Ken Cuccinelli of withholding (a claim they reject).
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2 Sep
So a DHS bulletin dated July 9th on Russian election interference was held back. DHS spx says it didn't meet the agency's standards. But just a week later DHS sent out a bulletin on anarchists in Portland in which officers admitted they had "low confidence" in their assessment?
Here's that bulletin dated July 16th on "suspected anarchists extremists" in Portland. Notice the similar format to the above document obtained by @jonkarl. The "low confidence" assessment was sent out while one on Russia was held back?
int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
Here's our story from last month with more information on that DHS bulletin on Portland. nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/…
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18 Jul
NEW What started as a department following the lead of a president aiming to rally his base by declaring himself a protector of statues and monuments has resulted in the militarized crackdown of an American city. Here’s our story—>

nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/…
“The last people you really want are any of these federal officials” at the protests, said Gil Kerlikowske, the former commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and the former chief of the Seattle Police Department.
How did we get to the point of DHS dispatching teams of border agents and ICE officials to protests? Read this—> google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
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2 Jun
As protesters made their way into Chinatown, military helicopters were positioned just above rooftops, sending gusts of dust into the air. A part of a tree fell, nearly hitting passerbys. The crowds dispersed down side streets. Some storefronts were shattered. #DCProtest.
About 10 minutes later, here it goes again.
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11 Sep 19
A little story of resilience and kindness: From 2015 to 2018, I covered the anniversary of 9/11 at the memorial in Lower Manhattan. Last year, I wrote about someone who returned from college to pay respect to the mother he never met. wsj.com/articles/seven…
When the North Tower got hit, Jake Campbell's mother, Jill Maurer-Campbell, called her family from the South Tower to tell them she would be fine. Then a plane hit the South Tower.
Jakes father, an NYPD officer, and grandfather, a firefighter, spent days digging through rubble. Jake's grandfather died from cancer he got from the toxic air at the site. His dad died of a heart attack months before Jake was accepted to Michigan.
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