Breaking: Whistleblower complaint from DHS -CNN

[octoberlib]

Whistleblower alleges top Trump appointees abused authority by telling officials to alter intelligence to match Trump claims


A whistleblower is alleging that top political appointees in the Department of Homeland Security repeatedly instructed career officials to modify intelligence assessments to ensure they matched up with misleading public comments from President Donald Trump about Antifa and "anarchist" groups, according to documents reviewed by CNN and a source familiar with the situation.

Specifically, acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Ken Cuccinelli, both Trump appointees, directed officials to change intelligence assessments based on Trump's political rhetoric, an order the whistleblower says amounted to an abuse of authority, according to the documents.

Both Wolf and Cuccinelli also tried to alter a report to downplay the threat posed by White supremacists and instead emphasize the role of leftist groups due to concerns about how the initial language would reflect on the President, according to a source familiar with the claims raised by the whistleblower.

DHS did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment regarding allegations that Wolf and Cuccinelli ordered officials to change intelligence assessments for political reasons but have broadly denied either man took actions that constitute as an abuse of power, as stated in the complaint. Separately, the complaint says, Cuccinelli expressed frustration with intelligence reports detailing conditions in Guatamala, Honduras and El Salvador, late last year and accused "deep-state intelligence analysts" of compiling the information to undermine Trump's objectives regarding asylum, according to the documents reviewed by CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/dhs-whistleblower-white-supremacist-threat/index.html

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[smirkymonkey]

2. This shitshow is never going to end, is it?

I honestly think I am going to go completely mad long before he goes away. It just never fucking stops.

[octoberlib]

3. I think these next couple of months are going to be the worst.

This has been the most exhausting 3 1/2 years of my life.

[cilla4progress]

20. The worst or the best?

I mean, I'm glad it's rolling out every single day. Especially if it takes down the whole cabal.

[octoberlib]

25. It's good that it's all coming out but at the same time , it's exhausting.

[smirkymonkey]

23. Seriously! I honestly just feel so completely spent by it all. I don't want to do anything

anymore because I just feel so depleted all the time, mostly it's mentally and psychologically. I just can't wait until he is gone from the face of the earth!

[octoberlib]

26. Totally agree. I miss my old , calm life under Obama.

[llmart]

32. I could not agree more and can relate to how you feel.

Every single day is a nightmare from that administration and each nightmare is worse than the one before.

Can you even imagine what he'll be doing after he loses?

[smirkymonkey]

37. I hope he'll be stroking out.

That, or leaving the country for Russia or some other Authoritarian regime with his whole rotten family.

[llmart]

39. Maybe he'll go to Russia and stroke out there.

And yes, take his whole criminal family with him, including the "I Really Don't Care" porn star.

[appalachiablue]

44. He has to take the followers, they'll love it there

[llmart]

53. Yes, that's why they all love "red" hats.

They're the commies they keep worrying about.

[LymphocyteLover]

30. YES, I hear you

the stories will be hair-curling and the denials from the Trumpists infuriating

[Nitram]

54. Not until after the election. Dump is counting on running out the clock to win the election.

Running out the clock on hundreds of suits and charges.

[Dr. Jack]

4. The floodgates are opening, it would appear

Grab some popcorn and maybe stay away from any MAGA heads. They tend to run people over their cars when they are upset

[C_U_L8R]

6. Everyone hoping to have a career past this administration

will start taking emergency measures to make sure they don't go down with the Trump.

[Illumination]

19. They'd better know how to swim! The Titanic big a** is going down like the boats in TX!...

[stillcool]

5. Yeah! The Wolf guy is bad news...

well, who isn't in Trump world? Funny how you read about these people, and then a story like this comes out, and you think it's going to change something....even though, you've already read about it.

[uponit7771]

7. Just what the ever loving fuck !?

[superpatriotman]

8. Government is broken

Can it be saved?

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. crime.

[StrictlyRockers]

10. Holy shit, this is so bad!

People may have died because of these lies, too.

[aquamarina]

11. This fucking administration is going DOWN

Every damn one of these corrupt assholes is going down.

[mcar]

12. ...

[Mike 03]

13. MSNBC is about to cover this (noon PST)

They are also covering the Woodward tapes (and playing clips).

[octoberlib]

16. It's on now. Also in the reports was the reason they stopped the briefings on

Russian election interference. It made the President look bad.

[muriel_volestrangler]

49. This is the important bit - they are covering up Russian election interference

They are already trying to steal the election. It's not just white supremacists; they are suppressing the intelligence on the subversion of the election.

And it's not just to stop the President looking bad. It's to illegally get him to "win" in November.

[mjvpi]

14. We have to get back to fact based decision making in government.

Changing facts to match policy is a bad habit that the Republicans turned into an art form around climate change issues. Think Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation.

[octoberlib]

17. +1

[MontanaMama]

15. I won't believe any of these criminals will pay for their crimes until I see it.

This is just insane.

[ResistantAmerican17]

18. I see the ruling that acting asshole Wolf is there illegally doesn't mean shit.

[yaesu]

21. the problem is, the only part of government that isn't fascist controlled can do very little if

anything about this.

[Kablooie]

22. The Fascist authoritarian government is really ramping up, isn't it?

Goodbye to the old United States of America.
Hello to the Trump States of America.

God, I hope this is stopped cold in November.

[NurseJackie]

24. Eliminate DHS.

[octoberlib]

28. I always thought the Department of Homeland Security was Nazi sounding.

[NurseJackie]

29. For me, it evokes the word "Fatherland" ... I've always been distrusting and uncomfortable with it.

[orangecrush]

46. That was completely intentional

On the part of it's creators.

[llmart]

33. Me too.

When they started thinking they could go to a public library and get access to anyone's records was the last straw for me.

And yes, "Homeland" just reeks of Nazism. They need to be gone.

[Ligyron]

34. And take that "Patriot " act with it.

[llmart]

35. Speaking of "patriot"...

I can only imagine what sort of b.s. will be spewed this Friday for "Patriot Day". I just hope Joe Biden is ready with one of his heartfelt statements and calming demeanor of speech because you just know the orange ass is going to try to act as if he single handedly brought in Osama bin Laden. Joe should also remind the public who was in that room when bin Laden was brought to justice.

[scarletwoman]

38. Yes, yes, yes! It's been an abomination from the very beginning.

[ffr]

27. Get this whole cabal crew out of here!

[jaxexpat]

31. Treason case # (insert pretty big number)

Should be a busy year or two for the courts.

You see, ordering security officers to lie and thus diminish the security of the very constituency who's in jeopardy is.....what?......dereliction of duty? Predictably awful?

How about a whole new penal code just for the Trumpers? No minimum/maximum sentencing. Everyone guilty of altering facts to aide Trump's lying spends the rest of their lives living with Trump and all his other comrades in a communal maximum security institution. No locks on the cell doors. Hamberders and perpetual rallies for all. Oh, and running water on alternate Thursdays. With one gold plated toilet (running water on alternate Thursdays, only). Have digressed just about far enough into this stuff!

But mostly it's this. None of these grifters should get a single extra day of freedom to flaunt the fruits of their cheating. To become nightly news heroes of scandal sheet reporting and tell-all novellas paraded like some perverse entertainment before the American people.

That's just how I feel. My mom was a Methodist.

[Alex4Martinez]

36. Kickity!

[Martin Eden]

40. I don't doubt it for one second

Most criminally corrupt regime in US history.

[Skittles]

41. it's just ENDLESS

[flibbitygiblets]

42. Cue the RW douchebag cabal tripping over themselves to out the whistleblower

Because integrity is for suckers, and so is following the law, according to Republicans. No wonder they admire t-rump.

[jcgoldie]

45. I think they are taking fire on too many fronts right now

When the president is willing to go on tape for 18 hours with Bob Woodward and brag about what a liar he is on a national pandemic... who has time to undercut another whistleblower on Trump sucking off Putin?

[flibbitygiblets]

47. They have been on the ropes for weeks now--so good to see!

Not that they didn't bring 100% of it on themselves. For once I'm glad some people held on to their powder. Lots of haymakers landing lately!

[lindysalsagal]

43. Now the msm has to take this ball and run with it. They never did with bush.

Corrupting justice must be punished!

[BigmanPigman]

48. Enablers!

Lock them up!

[yardwork]

50. Altering intelligence reports. The implications are terrifying.

[onetexan]

52. The entire con scheme was a lie, so i'm sure everything that went on in that cabal were all lies.

Terrifying in deed. Morning Joe earlier had a NATO European leader on earlier saying they are beyond shock re: what the Con says after he stood on the world stage next to Putin & undermined the US' own intelligence. He was on to speak about the situation in Belarus & was asked if he was shocked the US hasn't spoken out about this. His reply was in this case given the Con's propensity towards dictators that the US' abrogation of diplomacy intervention was a good thing. Sad.

[colsohlibgal]

51. Good Grief!

The Dam seems to have burst and it’s hopefully it leads to a rout.

[Joinfortmill]

55. Courageous

[niyad]

56. NSS