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Homeland agency expanded authority to wage ‘domestic surveillance and censorship,’ House report says
Just the News ^ | 6/26/23 | Greg Piper

Posted on 06/27/2023 6:29:37 AM PDT by CFW

Article Dig In Secret documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee show that a Department of Homeland Security agency "expanded its mission to surveil Americans’ speech on social media, colluded with Big Tech and government-funded third parties to censor by proxy, and tried to hide its plainly unconstitutional activities from the public," according to an interim staff report released Monday night.

The findings add details to reporting by Just the News about the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its work with private entities to remove, throttle and label purported misinformation on elections, Hunter Biden and COVID-19 — efforts that might even constitute election meddling and sometimes target true content.

The "severe public outcry" in spring 2022 against DHS's Disinformation Governance Board, shuttered a few months later, so alarmed CISA and its advisors that they "tried to cover their tracks" on censorship and surveillance, which "included scrubbing CISA’s website of references to domestic 'misinformation' and 'disinformation,'" the report says.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: censorship; conservatives; corruption; dhs
Congress writes a vague law authorizing the creation of an agency and its mission, then allows the agency to write its own rules and regulations. All deliberate. This allows politicians to abdicate their duties since Court's have repeatedly ruled to give deference to the agency in their rule-making and how they define certain actions. That needs to stop and Congress needs to return to doing their jobs rather than outsourcing it to un-elected bureaucrats.
1 posted on 06/27/2023 6:29:37 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

This won’t stop. This Nation will be a communist totalitarian country without a shot being fired. Khrushchev called it in his address to the UN way back in 1956.


2 posted on 06/27/2023 6:38:52 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: CFW

W gave us DHS instead of just sending troops to the border as authorized by the Constitution.


3 posted on 06/27/2023 6:43:46 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: GingisK

Was that when he put the shoe on the table? I remember that! Oh wait! That was 1960!


4 posted on 06/27/2023 6:44:39 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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Now that 9/11 has become forgotten history, it’s time to defund DHS. It’s nothing but a waste of American tax dollars. The damn worthless agency never did do what it was meant to do. What did the bastards do to stop the invasion of criminals, freeloaders, terrorists, future Congress azhos, and every other kind of scum from invading America across the Rio Grande? Hmmmmm? What did they do? The losers failed. That’s what they did. The bastards went after Americans instead of foreign sewage imported into America.


5 posted on 06/27/2023 6:46:25 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (A man in NM is killed over a movie theater seat. The azhos in The Swamp think guns are the problem. )
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Created to protect us from Islamic terrorists?
Utterly unconstitutional. The idiot Bush gave us this agency with the Nazi name. Same manpower as the USMC and twice the budget.


6 posted on 06/27/2023 6:51:43 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Since you can’t fire these criminals so:

Revoke their Security Clearances

Relocate them to Southern border towns assign them to illegal immigration.


7 posted on 06/27/2023 6:53:10 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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> W gave us DHS instead of just sending troops to the border as authorized by the Constitution. <

Right. W’s long list of failures makes him (in my opinion) one of America’s three worst presidents.
We will pay for his many mistakes long into the future.


8 posted on 06/27/2023 6:53:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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“Since you can’t fire...”

Shoplifting at $100 billion/year is far more costly than bank robbery.


9 posted on 06/27/2023 7:06:55 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ARTICLE I SECTION 2....The President...may require the opinion, in writing)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Now that 9/11 has become forgotten history, it’s time to defund DHS.

You're right. The last thing we need is one more bureaucracy that functions as a 'thug arm of the democrat parry'... Or in a natural switch - as the thug arm of the Republican party.

We've seen 'homeland's' true colors and it's time to end stop funding the monster.

10 posted on 06/27/2023 7:10:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black dem thugs, white liberal 'elites', & sexual weirdos - democrat's team against the rest of us)
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To: CFW

Gee, how’d that happen?


11 posted on 06/27/2023 7:29:22 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: CFW

Bush’s ‘legacy’.


12 posted on 06/27/2023 7:50:54 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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Yes Bush is to blame but the most important issue is how do WE stop it now??
Since this is before the House we, ALL of us, need to email write and phone our Congressmen OFTEN
Congress people since they have to run every 2 years are sensitive to their voters.

So all Freepers, PLEASE contact your rep.
Congress can defund DHS


13 posted on 06/27/2023 7:56:30 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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I could save them some time. My social credit score is in the negatives.


14 posted on 06/27/2023 8:07:35 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

He pounded on the table with his shoe.


15 posted on 06/27/2023 11:04:23 AM PDT by GingisK
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