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Conrad Wilson
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A report on Portlands 2020 protests shows how senior DHS leaders pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made spurious connections between protesters who engaged in criminal activity.
Senior Homeland Security leaders pushed unfounded antifa conspiracy at 2020 Portland protests,...
A damning Department of Homeland Security internal report outlines how senior leadership pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made...
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4:02 PM · Oct 1, 2021
Conrad Wilson
@conradjwilson
A report on Portlands 2020 protests shows how senior DHS leaders pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made spurious connections between protesters who engaged in criminal activity.
Senior Homeland Security leaders pushed unfounded antifa conspiracy at 2020 Portland protests,...
A damning Department of Homeland Security internal report outlines how senior leadership pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made...
opb.org
4:02 PM · Oct 1, 2021
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/10/01/senior-homeland-security-leaders-pushed-unfounded-antifa-conspiracy-at-2020-portland-protests-report-states/
On the same day a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security received a damning internal report about its intelligence operations targeting racial justice protesters in Portland last summer.
It outlines how senior leadership pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made spurious connections between protesters who engaged in criminal activity.
The report is an internal review focused on the agencys Office of Intelligence & Analysis. It shows political appointees at DHS pressured career analysts to further the Trump administrations political agenda. The report, made available Friday by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D- Oregon, found that in addition to attempting to politicize intelligence, senior DHS leaders pressured subordinates to illegally search phones. Open source intelligence collectors, who analyze intelligence pulled from publicly available sources, also created dossiers on protesters and journalists, despite those people having no clear connections to domestic terrorism or homeland security concerns.
The report documents shocking, coordinated efforts by our government to abuse its power and to invade liberty in violation of the Constitution, said Lisa Hay, Oregons federal public defender whose office represents protesters charged by the U.S. Justice Department. In Portland, we were concerned that the government unconstitutionally collected information, including through the illegal search of protestors cellphones last summer. This report confirms that was their intent.
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DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)1. Sounds like J. Edgar is running the place. nt
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)2. Police State 101
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)3. Do these "leaders" still work for DHS?
Sen. Wyden is a damn good. He's always working hard on this issues without grandstanding.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)4. Fascism right on down the line.
All of this did not come from the fevered brain of Donald Trump.
What I'd like to know is whose brain brought this plan for fascism in the U.S. together. I think a great deal can be laid at the feet of Vladimir Putin, but someone coordinated it in the U.S. That's the person(s) I want exposed.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)5. Clean sweep the agency.
Heads should roll.
malaise
(268,980 posts)6. So what will be the consequences?
That is all
maxrandb
(15,325 posts)7. Umm, "coordinated effort by government to abuse power, invade liberty and violate the Constitution"
Requires more than releasing a report.
Call me when some of these fucksticks are sent to Leavenworth