The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly Involving Itself in Domestic Politics

greenwald.substack.com ^ | 24 Mar, 2021 | Glenn Greenwald

[MtnClimber]

A letter from House Intelligence Committee members demands answers from the DNI about illegal breaches of the wall guarding against CIA and NSA domestic activity.

A report declassified last Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security is raising serious concerns about the possibly illegal involvement by the intelligence community in U.S. domestic political affairs.

Entitled “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021,” the March 1 Report from the Director of National Intelligence states that it was prepared “in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security—and was drafted by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with contributions from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).”

Its primary point is this: “The IC [intelligence community] assesses that domestic violent extremists (DVEs) who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.” While asserting that “the most lethal” of these threats is posed by “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and militia violent extremists (MVEs),” it makes clear that its target encompasses a wide range of groups from the left (Antifa, animal rights and environmental activists, pro-choice extremists and anarchists: “those who oppose capitalism and all forms of globalization”) to the right (sovereign citizen movements, anti-abortion activists and those deemed motivated by racial or ethnic hatreds).

The U.S. security state apparatus regards the agenda of “domestic violent extremists” as “derived from anti-government or anti-authority sentiment,” which includes “opposition to perceived economic, racial or social hierarchies.” In sum, to the Department of Homeland Security, an “extremist” is anyone who opposes the current prevailing ruling class and system for distributing power. Anyone they believe is prepared to use violence, intimidation or coercion in pursuit of these causes then becomes a “domestic violent extremist,” subject to a vast array of surveillance, monitoring and other forms of legal restrictions:

[MtnClimber]

[Big Red Badger]

Who Can it Be Now?

[cdcdawg]

Increasingly? What’s the highest possible value on the scale?

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

CIA was created out of the Nazi SS, etc. as the O”SS” first. Purportedly as saviors in the public and military earshot and eyeshot. The CIA, etc. are really EVIL INCARNATE JEKYLL AND HYDES.

[buckalfa]

https://www.nps.gov/articles/wild-bill-donovan-and-the-origins-of-the-oss.htm#:~:text=Major%20General%20William%20J.%20Donovan%20led%20the%20Office,senior%20partner%20in%20a%20Wall%20Street%20law%20firm.

Thank you “Wild Bill” Donovan and FDR.

[oldbrowser]

And how would you categorize the people that were looting, burning, killing, and taking over cities last summer?

[katie didit]

How many alphabet agencies does it take to destroy a country and its people?

[17th Miss Regt]

Peaceful protestors.

(ducking...)

[Pajamajan]

"The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly Involving Itself in Domestic Politics"

Ya think?

🙄

[kiryandil]

"...domestic violent extremists (DVEs) who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.”

...domestic violent extremists (DVEs) who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland NonGenderedLand in 2021.”

We'll change it to the Department of NonGenderedLand Security later.

This is because The New Woke can't call the US the Motherland or the Fatherland.

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Remember: According to them EVERYONE on this website is a supposed “terrorist”. If George Washington were here today they would be calling him a supposed “terrorist” too, and George Washington would be their prime target they would take out first.