Posted on 06/25/2024 5:09:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
With polling consistently suggesting most Americans fear for the future of democracy depending on the winner of the 2024 presidential election, and that democracy tops concerns for single-issue voters, internal meeting notes from a Department of Homeland Security panel suggest the Biden administration fears the wrong kind of democracy.
America First Legal, founded by former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller, is dribbling out redacted "#DeepStateDiaries" handed over by DHS to resolve AFL's litigation alleging that last year's creation of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, also disbanded under the settlement, violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act because of its heavy partisan tilt.
The advisory group to DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis and Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator included two Obama administration proponents of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and 98% of its members' political donations went to Democrats, AFL claims.
Group members identified what they considered a disproportionate number of Americans being identified as proper targets of surveillance and intelligence collection due to their likelihood of becoming "domestic violent extremists": supporters of now-presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the "religious" and members of the military, according to snippets of notes released by AFL.
Internal discussions included getting parents to report their children to the feds for alleged extremism and teachers to report their students, by reclassifying it as a "public health" issue, the notes show.
Members also brainstormed reframing DHS's "See Something, Say Something" campaign after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which they conceded largely failed to convince Americans to report potential terrorist threats, as "See Something, Help Someone" to get Americans to report purportedly extremist neighbors.
The latest tranche, released Monday, includes discussions on using the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to justify intelligence "[c]ollection based on sites where they [analysts] expect to see indicators [of extremism]," referring to speech online.
This circumvents First Amendment restrictions on targeting "a particular person for a particular reason," the notes say, acknowledging that prior to the riot, analysts were wary of such collection and the FBI had "cultural inhibitions" against collecting "actionable intelligence" that could have predicted the riot.
Another discussion refers to the raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound and "reason to be concerned about a violent reaction," to justify expanded surveillance, according to AFL.
The documents "prove there is a pronounced difference between how I&A operated … before and after January 6," the legal group said. "They demonstrate how the standards followed under the Trump administration to respect Constitutional rights and civil liberties are apparently no longer followed under the Biden administration."
DHS did not respond to Just the News queries for its response to AFL's characterization of the internal notes and how the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group's proposals would not be a threat to democracy.
The notes echo the Biden administration's characterization of common political views as a threat to national security, from the Justice Department's tacit conflation of parental protests at school board meetings with "domestic terrorism" to a longtime FBI employee's top-secret security clearance review.
FBI officials subjected the employee to a political litmus test, asking witnesses whether he was known to support former President Trump, had expressed concerns about COVID-19 vaccines or had attended a Second Amendment rally, months before revoking his security clearance, Just the News reported earlier this month.
House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, responded by asking Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate the alleged use of political litmus tests to push out conservative employees and demanded an explanation for the politicized questions from FBI Director Christopher Wray....
They must really hate the founding fathers....
It’s time to dismantle the DHS and the TSA. Repeal all of W’s insipid movements he used to enslave this great nation.
I fear for my Republic! I fear that it will be replaced by a “Democracy” (Mobocracy!)!
Not enough; Clapper, Brennan, et.al., need to be brought to Justice for the havoc they have dragged this Nation through.
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Dismantle the punishment of the victims.
“...referring to speech online...”
In other words, those filthy scumbag communist FBI pukes are monitoring these forums. They are afraid of American citizens. They should be. /spit
Do these same people, who once held the highest security clearance in the Fed government, and are 'retired',
still hold their high security clearances ?
If so,.. why ?
There seems to be a lot of financial value for someone who currently holds it.
Many, if not most, then appear on Boards on large corporations or employment in the public media based on their personal contacts,
even though they are inept or discredited.
Trump is right. But he has to dismantle all alphabet agencies not authorized in the 18 enumerated powers of Congress in the constitution.
...the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group's proposals would not be ARE a threat to democracy.
Also, absolutely unconstitutional, which is something these a-holes actually took oaths to support and defend.
5 U.S. Code § 3331 - Oath of office: An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, shall take the following oath: “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
I have raised my right hand before the US Flag and said this oath 5 times.
The so-called “Patriot” Act and the DHS should be abolished completely. They are misnomers used by the criminals to take away our freedoms.
That's been my tagline for the past few years!
Clapper and Brennan are traitors period! They helped create and perpetuate a coup against a legitimately elected President of the USA. They still had their clearances then and they still have them today. WHY??? If they retired, their clearances need to be revoked.
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