Posted on 03/26/2021 5:15:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security, which was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to protect the country from international terrorism, is moving toward a sweeping set of policy changes to detect and stop what intelligence officials say is now a top threat: domestic violent extremism.
Two senior Biden administration officials said DHS, whose intelligence division did not publish a warning of potential violence before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, is seeking to improve its ability to collect and analyze data about domestic terrorism — including the sorts of public social media posts that threatened an attack on the U.S. Capitol but were not deemed "actionable" by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
DHS plans to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, as well as to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects about Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components.
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Are woke raids in our future?
I remember the Bush admin’s announcement of this group many years ago and suspected sooner or later it would be turned around and used by a hostile leftist administration against US citizens deemed political enemies. Wasn’t too far off.
I know we have to wait for investigations and all that, however, I’ve heard virtually nothing about how this Ahmad guy is Muslim, and may well have been radicalized as a home grown Muslim terrorist. I know it would be speculation until and unless proven. But, they freely discuss how “white men” commit these atrocities, but seem to want to avoid talking about the tendencies of other groups to commit terrorism in our country.
Are they trying to say what happened in DC on Jan 6 was terrorism?
Because that would be utter bullshit.
EVIL BS government!!
Yep, that was the whole purpose of it, by using it/that to start and all-encompass everywhere in the US with the/a “surveillance society” first.
Nazi Germany had a “Department of Homeland “Security” “ too. See how that turned out with concentration camps, mass murders, etc.?
Yes it is utter BS, just like EVERYTHING else!!
Just shy of 20 years, and now the organization intended to protect against moslem terrorism is fully aimed at normal Americans.
Creepy nazi sounding name, the manpower of the USMC and twice the budget. Thank Bush chimp for destroying our freedom. He damaged America more than Osama ever dreamed of.
You can bet your last dime that they aren’t aiming at Antifa or BLM.
Time to reread the The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich.
I heard the DHS is 250k strong.
Actually, that would be peaceful. Antifa makes sure to only do that looting and torching at night. Apparently that’s not criminal if you do it after hours.
The covid overhype is now shifting to this
Their excuse to start wiping out white people with police and military forces
Never seen terrorists stay behind the velvet ropes before.
Many of us said that before the law was passed.
Another one of the hundreds of paves law just so happened to be ready to go, events.
What a crock.
It’s a fabricated “threat” used to justify more and more power grabs.
I trust they go after the racist democrat party.
The United Socialist States of Amerika.
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