1/10 Thread on the Biden administration's strategy for "Countering Domestic Terrorism" released today. int.nyt.com/data/documentt… 2/10 First the good. There is a strategy! And it includes elements that civil society has been calling for for some time: better tracking of DT cases; and resources for DT prosecutions. It recognizes the need to protect civil rights and civil liberties.

1/9 It's tempting to turn to the war on terror model to fight far right violence. But we need to: 1) consider whether it's the right model for the situation; and 2) find ways to ensure that we don't cross constitutional lines. Here's how we do that: 2/9 RESOLVE. After 9/11 we swore never again & mobilized as a country. We were able to do that bc we saw the enemy as "other" -- foreign, Muslim, dark.

When the dust clears, folks will inevitably start talking about "countering violent extremism" #CVE aimed at the types of folks who stormed the capitol today. Here are a few things to think about. What is CVE? Well, its a lot of diff things, lets go through them:
➡️ trying to ID potentially violent folks, very hard to do, where do you even start when you can't focus your resources on an identifiable minority as #CVE has done so far. No evidence it works at all.

Listening to questions at Cuomo presser, hoping press will ask some hard questions re #slowvaxrollout. Oh god, the cheesy back & forth with journalists.

So, at Trump's direction, DHS is treating protecting statutes & identifying demonstrators as a homeland security priority. A few additional thoughts on the intel programs described here. lawfareblog.com/dhs-authorizes… First, they're supposed to use the "least intrusive collection techniques feasible and sufficient" - publicly available info is listed as not intrusive, so expect a lot of social media monitoring, which DHS is heavily into. See here for details: brennancenter.org/sites/default/…

Trump administration just announced new immigration restrictions, just about 3 years after the #MuslimBan. It applies to: Myanmar, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Sudan. Lots to unpack here, so keep reading. 4 out of 6 of these countries are in Africa. Trump has never wanted immigration from Africa, remember this remark about "shithole countries"? 4 of them are also majority Muslim, so there's def a pattern here.

In non-impeachment news, @ewarren just put out a plan to fight white nationalist violence. Thread on why it's really pretty good. elizabethwarren.com/plans/confront… It focuses on white nationalist VIOLENCE, rather than speech or ideology thus avoiding slippage between speech and action that we have seen in other contexts (e.g., targeting Muslims for terrorism based on their religious beliefs rather than their actions).

Thread on this imp op-ed by the president of @Columbia saying he won't monitor foreign students for the FBI. washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-i-… Turns out FBI agents visiting universities asking them to keep tabs on students, especially from China, as reported by @NPR npr.org/2019/06/28/728…. But that is not all the administration is doing to keep tabs on what students are studying.