The report shows political appointees at DHS pressured career analysts to further the Trump administration’s political agenda. The report, made available Friday by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, opb.org/article/2021/1…
found that in addition to attempting to politicize intelligence, senior DHS leaders pressured subordinates to illegally search phones. Open source intelligence collectors also created dossiers on protesters and journalists, despite those people having no clear connections to
domestic terrorism or homeland security concerns.
DHS senior leaders’ attempts at the time to connect the racial justice protests to a centrally organized effort by antifa to commit violence against government institutions — a shocking admission of organizational overreach
The review of the DHS intel branch revealed an unprepared and ill-trained workforce was thrown into assisting with intel collection amid the civil unrest in Portland in summer 2020 contrib to the gathering and dissemination of intel on US journalists there amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/10/01…
"These intelligence reports were unusual in that they reported on the activities of U.S. journalists engaged in ordinary journalism,"
"Independent investigators confirmed that DHS intelligence officials lacked basic knowledge of their authority, what constituted real threats,
and when it was appropriate to investigate Americans who were suspected of no crime at all. It documents how untrained analysts investigated journalists," Wyden said in a statement.
So it seems Chad Wolf, acting Sec was unaware, asked for the review so was Trump running DHS too?
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Rob Monster, the CEO of domain registrar and web hosting company Epik, finally responded to the massive breach of his company on Thursday evening in a bizarre and chaotic video conference.
These incl the TX GOP, Gab, Parler, and 8chan, among other right-wing sites. The stolen data has been released as a torrent. The hacktivist collective says that the data set, which is over 180GB in size, contains a "decade's worth of data from the company" arstechnica.com/information-te…
The first call was prompted by Milley’s review of intel sug the Chinese believed the US was preparing to attack. That belief was based on tensions over military exercises in the South China Sea, and deepened by Trump’s belligerent rhetoric toward China. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel.
I think he might be in trouble if true
Milley, chosen by Trump in 2018, believed the president had suffered a mental
decline after the election, the authors write, a view he communicated to House Speaker Pelosi in a phone call on Jan. 8. He agreed with her evaluation that Trump was unstable, according to a call transcript.
Believing that China could lash out if it felt at risk from an
increasing taxes on “tobacco and nicotine” by roughly $100 billion, while also raising $16 billion from changing rules to “treat cryptocurrency the same as other financial instruments.” washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021…
The new proposal includes many measures Dems are widely expected to embrace, such as increasing the top tax rate on Americans earning over $435K from 37% to 39.6%. It also calls for a new corporate tax rate 26.5% for large profitable businesses, up from the current rate of 21%.
Some smaller firms would see their taxes stay the same or even cut under the plan
The draft tax proposal also includes some surprises, including a smaller than expected increase in the capital gains rate paid by investors from 20% to 25%
Years ago, the Commission wrote that when it came to the Saudi diplomat Fahad al-Thumairy, "We have not found evidence that Thumairy provided assistance to the two hijackers."
A decade later, it appears FBI agents came to a different
The orders have been sudden, dramatic and often baffling. Last week, “American Idol”-style competitions and shows featuring men deemed too effeminate were banned by Chinese authorities. washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
Days earlier, one of China’s wealthiest actresses, Zhao Wei, had her movies, television series and news mentions scrubbed from the Internet as if she had never existed.
Over the summer, China’s multibillion-dollar private education industry was decimated overnight by a ban on
for-profit tutoring, while new regulations wiped more than $1 trillion from Chinese tech stocks since Feb
“Xi Jinping Thought” is taught in elementary schools, and foreign games and apps like Animal Crossing and Duolingo have been pulled from stores.
Army Reserve Colonel David Harris has been charged with child sex crimes that stretch across LA, TX and FL which started in 2016
In LA Harris is being charged with one count each of aggravated crimes against nature and indecent behavior with a juvenile 1/ newsweek.com/fbi-child-sex-…
In August, a grand jury heard his case and issued an indictment that makes reference to two victims under age 17 and alleged offenses that occurred in 2016
TX is charging him with exposing himself to two teenage girls on numerous occasions. Harris was also having an affair with
the mother of one of the girls.
Florida authorities issued an arrest warrant for Harris regarding indecent exposure charges stemming from a 2019 incident while he was on vacation
During his alleged crimes, Harris worked as an infantry officer who was qualified as a foreign area