Posted on 09/08/2020 3:21:23 PM PDT by DesertRhino
White supremacists will remain the most "persistent and lethal threat" in the United States through 2021, according to Department of Homeland Security draft documents.
The most recent draft report predicts an "elevated threat environment at least through" early next year, concluding that some U.S.-based violent extremists have capitalized on increased social and political tensions in 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at koat.com ...
Liars.
No, but she hired and promoted those currently in policy-making positions there.
Personnel IS policy.
Islamists are laughing their asses off and licking their chops as the lambs prepare to go to their slaughter.
This is more BS posited by the entrenched bureaucracy, the Swamp, the Deep State, the unelected lawmakers of our Nation.
Time to dump the whole bunch. Get us back within the confines of the Constitution...
13 Aug: Cyberscoop: Ex-DHS officials urge department to double down on its cybersecurity work
by Sean Lyngaas
The Department of Homeland Security has been the face of some of the Trump administration’s most fiercely criticized policies, from aggressively rounding up migrants to detaining protesters.
A new bipartisan report from former DHS officials suggests the department cut ties with some of the “most partisan” aspects of its work, and redouble its efforts to protect the country from cyberthreats and infectious diseases.
“For the defense of American democracy to succeed, the secretary of homeland security and DHS generally will need to be, to the greatest extent possible, ‘above politics,’” states the report (LINK), which the Atlantic Council released Thursday.
The report comes as some private-sector analysts wonder whether the DHS crackdown on protesters in Portland will hinder collaboration between DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the white-hat hacking community. Employees at CISA — which works on election security, among other issues — have been keen to differentiate their work from the more incendiary parts of DHS.
Neil Jenkins, a former DHS official in the Obama administration, said CISA had done “an admirable job of staying apolitical in the current environment.” But he worried about the effect that DHS’s other agencies could have on the public’s perception of CISA...
More money never hurts
Whether under another term of President Donald Trump or a new Joe Biden administration, the Atlantic Council report urges CISA to ask Congress for significantly more money and resources to carry out its mission.
DHS, which was cobbled together from 22 different agencies in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, commanded a budget of more than $73 billion in fiscal 2020 and a workforce of 240,000. CISA accounted for about $2 billion of that money, and at least 2,100 of those people, according to budget documents(LINK).
But Durkovich and Warrick said more resources are needed. They called on lawmakers to establish a “cyber resilience fund” — akin to one used for natural disasters — that CISA could use to help fortify key sectors against persistent hacking...
Durkovich and Warrick also suggested CISA make an “emergency supplemental request” to Congress in the first half of 2021 so it can beef up protections for the November 2022 elections...
https://www.cyberscoop.com/dhs-future-atlantic-council-recommendations/
The DUMBASSES NEED TO BE FIRED!
Considering that a great number of their membership are undercover agents of various federal departments this could very well be true.
1 Apr: Fedscoop: Former DHS secretaries to propose major reforms streamlining resources for cybersecurity, coronavirus threats
by Dave Nyczepir
hen President Trump ordered incoming flights from Europe to be screened for COVID-19 starting March 14, DHS couldn’t access the doctors, supplies or facilities needed to do that efficiently, Tom Warrick, the department’s first deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism policy, told FedScoop.
The result was seven-hour delays at major airports, even though DHS “knows precisely how many people are coming into the country each day through advanced passenger information data technology,” Warrick said.
Now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council‘s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Warrick will co-lead six study groups aimed, in part, at aligning resources with federal policies DHS must enforce...
“A part of this is the fractured nature of the way congressional oversight works,” Warrick said. “There are more than 90 committees and subcommittees in Congress that have some role and responsibility for overseeing parts of DHS.”
At least 11 major think tanks have recommended streamlining the process, but none of them boasted a senior advisory board that includes former Homeland Security secretaries...Michael Chertoff, Jeh Johnson and Janet Napolitano like the Future of DHS Project...READ ON
https://www.fedscoop.com/dhs-reforms-emerging-threats/
Source is Ben Witte at Lawfare?
Sounds legit to me.
Politico: Ben Wittes, the editor in chief of the national security site Lawfare, obtained the documents and shared them with POLITICO.
Wikipedia: Benjamin Wittes is an American legal journalist and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Research Director in Public Law, and Co-Director of the Harvard Law School–Brookings Project on Law and Security...
Wittes has also written for The Atlantic and The New Republic, and has contributed regular columns to Slate, Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and First Things.
In a post on Lawfare on January 28, 2017, reacting to Executive Order 13769, Wittes characterized the Trump administration as “malevolence tempered by incompetence.” This description received widespread attention and re-use,including its being featured in a New York Times op-ed by Paul Krugman...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wittes
Speaking of the Atlantic Council:
When Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bodyguards were arrested after attacking a crowd of protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in May 2017, Erdogan and his crew were heading inside for a private, off-the-record meeting with Atlantic Council fellows and board members. That event is just one example of the close relationship between the Washington, D.C., think tank and the...
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This is a joke, right?
Defeat Law of the Sea Treaty — Again
5/16/2012, 9:28:36 AM · by Kaslin · 24 replies
Townhall.com ^ | May 16, 2012 | Phyllis Schlafly
The stunning repudiation of Sen. Richard Lugar’s, R-Ind., bid for a seventh term has sent shock waves through Washington’s internationalist lobby. A former Rhodes Scholar, Lugar has spent his career promoting a globalist agenda, since he succeeded the late Jesse Helms as the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. One day after Indiana Republicans handed Lugar his walking papers, an outfit called the Atlantic Council held a forum to promote the discredited Law of the Sea Treaty. As former Republican U.S. Sens. Chuck Hagel and John Warner beamed their approval, Obama’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta declared that...
Boy o boy, these dimwits are all outta ideas!
this NYT POS was clearly a forerunner of the Politico/Ben Wittes POS:
1 Sept: NYT: Trump Administration Promise to Focus on Extremism Remains Unfulfilled
A year after the Department of Homeland Security promised to focus more on violent extremism, the plan to carry out that shift remains hidden while the atmosphere worsens.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs; Katie Benner contributed reporting
The Department of Homeland Security started an effort a year ago this month to address domestic terrorism, white nationalist threats and other acts of homegrown violence...
Instead, a new crop of Department of Homeland Security leaders, led by the confrontational acting secretary, Chad F. Wolf, appear to be doing the opposite of what had been promised. Far from cooperating with local governments and citizens to combat domestic unrest, particularly from the far right, they have joined President Trump in lashing out at American mayors and governors while deploying federal tactical teams to cities — often expressly against the wishes of the local governments with which they had pledged to cooperate...
Killings this summer in Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., and Kenosha, Wis., have heightened fears that the kind of ideological extremism that the department sought to address last September has burst onto the streets of the nation’s cities...
The document published a year ago singled out white supremacist and anti-government extremism as primary national security threats, while also noting the potential threat posed by Antifa, a loose-knit anti-fascist movement. Officials at the time committed to releasing a detailed implementation plan within months...
“It’s government dysfunction and bureaucracy at its worst,” said Daryl Johnson, a former senior analyst for the Department of Homeland Security whose 2009 report warning of the rise of right-wing extremism was withdrawn after it prompted political backlash from conservative leaders furious that it suggested some military veterans were joining far-right movements...
Some city leaders and former department officials went further, saying that in the absence of cooperation, the president was exploiting the unrest for his re-election campaign, singling out left-wing agitators while ignoring white supremacists and right-wing groups.
Elizabeth Neumann, a Trump appointee who left the department in April after serving as an assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention, said some White House officials had even sought to suppress the phrase “domestic terrorism.”
The administration criticizes Antifa, even though the department considers it to be a “low grade” menace, she said, but it appears unwilling “to come out and repeatedly and consistently criticize the white supremacist global threat,” which is far more lethal.
“It’s clear by labeling Antifa domestic terrorists, they’re just doing this for political purposes,” she said...
Ms. Neumann said that in the weeks before her departure, she pushed the domestic extremism implementation plan through the department’s bureaucracy to its policy office...
The department planned to pair the blueprint with a new assessment of the threat posed by people affiliated with extremist groups, former department officials said. Both reports are caught in the department’s protracted review process...
On Monday, Mr. Trump defended the caravan of Trump supporters who drove into Portland over the weekend as “peaceful protesters,” even though video captured some of them shooting paintball guns from pickup trucks as protesters threw objects at them.
The victim of a fatal shooting during those protests was wearing a hat with the insignia of Patriot Prayer, a far-right group based in Oregon. A Department of Homeland Security intelligence briefing from July had warned law enforcement agencies that previous Patriot Prayer events had attracted white supremacists and devolved into violent clashes with anarchists. While the White House has blamed Antifa for the shooting, no suspects have been arrested.
Mr. Trump also defended as self-defense the lethal actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Illinois resident who has been charged with fatally shooting two people during a demonstration over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Before the shooting, Mr. Rittenhouse had stood alongside armed militia members.
“I guess he was in very big trouble,” Mr. Trump said. “He probably would have been killed. But it is under investigation.”...
The delay of the release of the Department of Homeland Security’s plan is consistent with the Trump administration’s underplaying of violence perpetuated by right-wing extremist groups, which have proliferated in the past three and a half years...
The strategy framework released by the department last September identified numerous rising threats, including white supremacist groups and anti-government extremists, like the boogaloo movement...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/politics/trump-homeland-security-extremism.html
The Iran threat via destruction of Iraq and DHS are two of the most colossal blunders in the history of America. Thanks GW.
So a low-level Obama holdover whipped up a white paper “draft” in Word and sent it to the media? That doesn’t make it “The DHS”.
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