Internal review shows Trump's DHS concocted bogus intelligence blaming antifa for violence

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/7/2056752/-Portland-invasion-by-Trump-s-DHS-goons-was-an-incompetent-shambles-internal-review-finds


What we didn’t know (and an internal DHS review that only surfaced this week reveals) was that it was also an extraordinary exercise in authoritarian incompetence. It demonstrates that senior DHS leadership pushed unfounded conspiracy theories about antifascists, encouraged the contractors they hired to violate protesters’ constitutional rights, and made spurious connections, based on no real evidence, between protesters who engaged in criminal activity. It also revealed poor training and inadequate guidance, which contributed to the federal intelligence officers’ lack of knowledge on legal restrictions for the collection of such information, and turned the entire operation into a massive mess.

“The report was a stunning analysis of the incompetence and mismanagement and abuse of power during the summer of 2020,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, who released a redacted version of the document Friday, told Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Originally released on Jan. 6—and its contents subsequently overlooked due to that day’s events—the internal review focused on DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I/A). It found that senior DHS leaders attempted to politicize intelligence in order to support Trump’s claims that a massive “antifa” conspiracy was behind the many anti-police protests around the nation, but particularly so in Portland. The same leaders pressured subordinates to illegally search phones, and when legal staff objected, sought to cut them out of the discussion.

A team of open source intelligence collectors, tasked with analyzing information obtained from public sources, also created dossiers on protesters and journalists—which they called “baseball cards”—despite having no clear connections to domestic terrorism or security threats.

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[ck4829]

1. People were being attacked while walking or traveling because they were thought to be "antifa"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1228281

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/loveland-man-accused-of-holding-salesmen-at-gunpoint-saying-they-were-antifa-he-would-shoot-them%3f_amp=true

Smells like state sponsored terrorism to me.