The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is officially “out of control,” according to America First Legal (AFL) Senior Counselor and Director of Investigations Reed Rubinstein. A hard look at newly released documents obtained from a July 2021 FOIA by AFL demonstrates Rubinstein is far from being hyperbolic. AFL submitted its FOIA “in response to the Biden Administration’s disturbing collaboration with Big Tech to censor Americans and use domestic surveillance to spy on American citizens—all under the guise of facilitating and implementing the strategies the Administration outlined in the “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.”
The information returned to AFL shows internal terrorism prevention planning documents from early in the Biden administration. The documents tout DHS’s “broad terrorism prevention and protection authorities that allow them to prevent international or domestic terrorism, without limitation to specific types or origins of potential terrorist threats or activities.” In other words, DHS seems to advocate for permission to investigate Americans as Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) based on various made-up scenarios complete with fully rendered characters and political undertones.
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Disturbingly, despite a lack of evidence, the DHS documents repeatedly state that the top domestic terror threat is the white supremacist. It reads, “Among DVEs, white supremacist extremists (WSE) are the most persistent and lethal threat.” Black supremacists, anarchists, and antigovernment violet extremists comprise “the remaining half.” At least one section of the document recognizes that “accurately characterizing domestic terrorism can be challenging.”
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DHS says it doesn’t target religion, gender, political views, or race—but their behavior over the past few years makes it difficult to believe otherwise. A program like this in the wrong hands is a formula for disaster. Whether we like it or not, and, sadly, whether we know it or not, their Orwellian plan may be engineered to identify Americans engaged in “wrong think” and “wrong speak” as the new domestic terrorists.
Source Article (uncoverdc.com)
>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is officially “out of control,” according to America First Legal (AFL) Senior Counselor and Director of Investigations Reed Rubinstein. A hard look at newly released documents obtained from a July 2021 FOIA by AFL demonstrates Rubinstein is far from being hyperbolic. AFL submitted its FOIA “in response to the Biden Administration’s disturbing collaboration with Big Tech to censor Americans and use domestic surveillance to spy on American citizens—all under the guise of facilitating and implementing the strategies the Administration outlined in the “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.”
>The information returned to AFL shows internal terrorism prevention planning documents from early in the Biden administration. The documents tout DHS’s “broad terrorism prevention and protection authorities that allow them to prevent international or domestic terrorism, without limitation to specific types or origins of potential terrorist threats or activities.” In other words, DHS seems to advocate for permission to investigate Americans as Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) based on various made-up scenarios complete with fully rendered characters and political undertones.
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Disturbingly, despite a lack of evidence, the DHS documents repeatedly state that the top domestic terror threat is the white supremacist. It reads, “Among DVEs, white supremacist extremists (WSE) are the most persistent and lethal threat.” Black supremacists, anarchists, and antigovernment violet extremists comprise “the remaining half.” At least one section of the document recognizes that “accurately characterizing domestic terrorism can be challenging.”
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DHS says it doesn’t target religion, gender, political views, or race—but their behavior over the past few years makes it difficult to believe otherwise. A program like this in the wrong hands is a formula for disaster. Whether we like it or not, and, sadly, whether we know it or not, their Orwellian plan may be engineered to identify Americans engaged in “wrong think” and “wrong speak” as the new domestic terrorists.
[Source Article](https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/05/12/afl-foia-dhs-is-out-of-control/)
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