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Native

(5,940 posts)
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 01:12 PM Jun 2020

Exclusive: Leaked document reveals details of federal law enforcement patrolling Washington amid pro

Source: Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — A leaked Trump administration document details the federal law enforcement and military personnel squaring off against protestors in Washington, D.C., including a 1,300-strong force currently deployed to the south side of the White House.

An internal report obtained by Yahoo News shows which agencies are involved.

The 1,300-strong show of force outside the White House is a task force operation that includes U.S. Secret Service, National Guard, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Park Police, according to the internal Department of Homeland Security report dated June 4. They aren’t the only ones in town: Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration, National Guard, Coast Guard, Federal Protective Service and more have been called in, says the document, which details DHS component deployments to Washington, D.C., and elsewhere around the country in response to protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Thousands more — from at least a dozen federal agencies or divisions — have been deployed across the capitol region and to cities big and small across the U.S. where peaceful protests have been held or are expected.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-leaked-document-reveals-details-of-federal-law-enforcement-patrolling-washington-amid-protests-154138680.html



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Exclusive: Leaked document reveals details of federal law enforcement patrolling Washington amid pro (Original Post) Native Jun 2020 OP
lots of coordination... stillcool Jun 2020 #1
Erik Prince and AG Barr, I expect. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2020 #14
Yup! Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) called for Barr's resignation today. OMGWTF Jun 2020 #29
Why Eik Prince? He has zero powers to call in: EX500rider Jun 2020 #49
Kickin' with disgust Faux pas Jun 2020 #2
Mayor of DC on TV last night gave the benefit of the doubt bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #3
Yes, Newest Reality Jun 2020 #7
+1000! Excellent post! (nt) scarletwoman Jun 2020 #18
Thank You! Newest Reality Jun 2020 #19
Ditto - Excellent post. c-rational Jun 2020 #30
Aha! druidity33 Jun 2020 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author NonPC Jun 2020 #4
Guess Where They're All Staying NonPC Jun 2020 #5
Guess? Probably? Please verify your speculations, because they don't help... Hekate Jun 2020 #10
NO DOUBT! louzke9 Jun 2020 #17
Same as I already said: you verify and you provide links Hekate Jun 2020 #36
only is there is a bunker in the deepest basement. mopinko Jun 2020 #38
.... dware Jun 2020 #48
Trump put all those Fed workers, who's desk jobs were closed down by Covid19, Budi Jun 2020 #6
Oh, goodie DENVERPOPS Jun 2020 #8
Scared much, you traitor? Joinfortmill Jun 2020 #9
Yet they weren't capable of this rapid mobilization & coordination to defend us against Covid-19. NBachers Jun 2020 #11
This is all to give the image of the Idiot being the law & order president, engineered by LowBarr & onetexan Jun 2020 #12
I can think of only one explanation for so many different agencies being involved. Only one. Rainbow Droid Jun 2020 #13
I wish your post wasn't in the middle of the thread because I think you make an important point. scarletwoman Jun 2020 #23
I echo ScarletWoman - this is a very scary possibility. Coordinated action by the "dump team". erronis Jun 2020 #26
I'm Ingersollman Jun 2020 #28
My fear is the armed idiots Trump encouraged to protest the governors a few weeks ago will show Ohioboy Jun 2020 #32
How do you know they aren't already there right now? Rainbow Droid Jun 2020 #33
You have a point Ohioboy Jun 2020 #34
nyc is suspending constitutional rights already questionseverything Jun 2020 #42
And the rural supremacists/ separatists Tumbulu Jun 2020 #44
A salient quote from FBI HRT Commander Danny Coulson at the CSA siege in 1985. Rainbow Droid Jun 2020 #45
I really really hope that you are correct! Tumbulu Jun 2020 #46
Beware of "Private Security " being used (commonly known as mercenaries) ashredux Jun 2020 #15
THAT COMES LATER... louzke9 Jun 2020 #20
Maybe it's time! to move away from D.C. and to... moonseller66 Jun 2020 #16
President I'm So Scared, is terrified and he shows it. redstatebluegirl Jun 2020 #21
Death Count Donnie is frightened? Brainfodder Jun 2020 #22
Same thing tiptonic Jun 2020 #24
Here the document ... aggiesal Jun 2020 #25
I should have scrolled down, instead I downloaded it. Thank you though. n/t rzemanfl Jun 2020 #27
Is there a link to that document? Grasswire2 Jun 2020 #41
It's the original link to the story ... aggiesal Jun 2020 #43
All of that to protect a pussy assed bitch as my teens would say. nt iluvtennis Jun 2020 #31
KR Cha Jun 2020 #35
FTP & ACAB Coventina Jun 2020 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jun 2020 #40
Wall Street Journal Article Link via MSN PassingFair Jun 2020 #47

OMGWTF

(3,951 posts)
29. Yup! Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) called for Barr's resignation today.
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 03:45 PM
Jun 2020

I called my two Dem Senators and asked them to get on board too. He needs to be drummed out of the WH and right into prison.

EX500rider

(10,839 posts)
49. Why Eik Prince? He has zero powers to call in:
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 12:58 PM
Jun 2020

U.S. Secret Service, National Guard, Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration, National Guard, Coast Guard, Federal Protective Service.

They only respond to govt orders.

bucolic_frolic

(43,128 posts)
3. Mayor of DC on TV last night gave the benefit of the doubt
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 01:19 PM
Jun 2020

to the Federal Government, admitting they were protecting federal property which is only right. But this is an overbearing, frightful way to do crowd control. The lack of transparency is alarming, and unnecessary.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
7. Yes,
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 01:33 PM
Jun 2020

Last edited Fri Jun 5, 2020, 03:06 PM - Edit history (1)

And the protection of citizens, (protesting or not) should take the priority or the federal property means nothing for us. What good are a bunch of buildings and monuments held sacred to the ideals of the nation when they have been commandeered by Fascists?

Without humanity as the ultimate value of life, there is no point in political nostalgia other than to utilize it as a boot stomping a human face forever. It all becomes a tool of oppression and nullifies the meaning of the institutions this property represents and is meant to uphold under all circumstances with no exceptions whatsoever. Otherwise, we are at the Game Over screen.

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NonPC

(302 posts)
5. Guess Where They're All Staying
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 01:22 PM
Jun 2020

Probably at the Trump Hotel in Washington. Trump must be raking in Millions of $$$ this week...

Can anyone verify?

Hekate

(90,645 posts)
10. Guess? Probably? Please verify your speculations, because they don't help...
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 02:05 PM
Jun 2020

We try to traffic in the verifiable and true, even when we are outraged. Thank you.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
6. Trump put all those Fed workers, who's desk jobs were closed down by Covid19,
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 01:23 PM
Jun 2020

..a security job and gave them camo gear & riot weapons.

Most of them look like they were fresh off their desk job.

Then he brags about increased employment #'s....

Trump drafted the Fed desk employees to the frontlines

DENVERPOPS

(8,810 posts)
8. Oh, goodie
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 01:52 PM
Jun 2020

Wow, there’s gonna be a hot time in the ol’ town tonight!!!!!!!!!

Trump has invited into D.C. all kinds of his nefarious good ol’ boys to have some fun with them there demonstrators. Border Patrol, ICE Agents, Prison Guards, etc

AND the best part is, they won’t wear any identifying information, name tags, etc
They can Wup Ass on minorities, and especially Blacks, and "Trump Haters" with complete impunity and anonymity….where else can you find that and get paid to do it as a bonus…...

NBachers

(17,107 posts)
11. Yet they weren't capable of this rapid mobilization & coordination to defend us against Covid-19.
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 02:15 PM
Jun 2020

Or, they were capable, but decided to weaponize the pandemic to their financial and political advantage.

onetexan

(13,036 posts)
12. This is all to give the image of the Idiot being the law & order president, engineered by LowBarr &
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 02:23 PM
Jun 2020

God knows who else. He's got his own brownshirts now. They will come into a peaceful protest to agitate and use deadly force, as we've seen several days ago, so as to present protesters as terrorists, as he's labelled them. All to throw fresh meat to his rabid base and win reelection. Damn dangerous.

Rainbow Droid

(722 posts)
13. I can think of only one explanation for so many different agencies being involved. Only one.
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 02:43 PM
Jun 2020

And it should be obvious to everyone by now:

These individuals are politically reliable shock troops loyal to the Leader (aka leibstandarte, schutzstaffel, sturmabteilung) organized and deployed by the Leader's loyalists who've been installed all over the federal government, especially in law enforcement and the judiciary. They've been sent to intimidate his opponents and so that they will be in place to act decisively with force when the moment is right.

There was no possible way Trump could get enough loyalists to do this job from any single agency and there is no way that any single agency would have sent only loyalists, even if one of Trump's lackeys at that agency ordered it. Doing it this way all Trump loyalists can work together, coordinate their actions, and wrap their actions in the legitimacy of agencies that, until recently, were loyal to the constitution, democracy, and the American people.

SO MAKE NO MISTAKE: THEY ARE COORDINATING.

They are all on the same team: Team Trump. Not Team America.

Those that feel they need to justify it to themselves are able to do so because they believe that Trump is America, up is down, and weakness is strength. But many of them do not need any justification whatsoever, they just want to get on with the killing.

Extremists throughout human history have never changed their core behavior: "winning" via the destruction of perceived enemies, at any cost, because the ends justify any means.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
23. I wish your post wasn't in the middle of the thread because I think you make an important point.
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 03:15 PM
Jun 2020

You may certainly be right about there being a "Team Trump" of vetted loyalists assembled from throughout the various military/armed forces.

It's certainly a sinking feeling...

Ohioboy

(3,240 posts)
32. My fear is the armed idiots Trump encouraged to protest the governors a few weeks ago will show
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 04:12 PM
Jun 2020

I'm sure they could turn a peaceful protest to hell.

Tumbulu

(6,272 posts)
44. And the rural supremacists/ separatists
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 02:11 AM
Jun 2020

are planning on attacking the Democratic governors and mayors, etc. that is the word on the ground in Trumpland. They are getting ready to start their civil war.

I just hope that they chicken out. But it is the plan.

And I even heard about these guys having infiltrated. Their plan is to seize control. And assassinate all the Democrats. And the people that I have heard this from are the sort that actually are capable of doing such things.

They have been waiting for this.

Rainbow Droid

(722 posts)
45. A salient quote from FBI HRT Commander Danny Coulson at the CSA siege in 1985.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 03:11 AM
Jun 2020

"If you start a war we're gonna end it."

This was one of the best equipped, trained, and prepared white nationalist militias in the entire country and he personally said this face to face with one of their leaders at the start of the siege. Even these guys eventually threw down their weapons and surrendered because they realized they had no chance whatsoever, and this was 35 years ago, only 3 years after the HRT was founded.

I find it difficult to believe that these kinds of people would stand idly by as Trump's white nationalists run amok.

No, I think Trump's time is just about up. He was an attack on our country, and we're starting to see our country fight back. It's a fight that has only just begun.

moonseller66

(430 posts)
16. Maybe it's time! to move away from D.C. and to...
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 02:59 PM
Jun 2020

"our opinions" to the streets in front of the local offices and homes of the Republican Representatives and Senators and lobbyists who so far have not taken the time to be bothered by any of this yet have allowed this to happen, especially Mitch.

And while at that, don't forget the other WH occupant's places, where only the sun is supposed to shine and flowers grow and unicorns graze on lower class feed, like Barr, Mnuchin, Miller etc. Add to that those who profit from allowing this to continue, such as those who provide Social Media BS and MSM partisanship as those who help this continue only so they can profit from it but don't give a damn who gets hurt (unless it's one of their own).

Imagine protests outside the residences of the Faux propagandists or some of the intentionally blind pundits of MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, Comcast, Sinclair etc.

Let's see how they like THEIR world disrupted for a change.

Protesting at a "business" while ignoring the residence of the CEO, legal help and others who made the decisions is not using all your resources.

They'll need a whole lot more "protection" from those hypocrites who gladly are willing to bust American Heads in order to keep their jobs knowing when this is over, we'll all forget who they were.

Remember to take lots of videos and pictures of those who work against peaceful protesting so they can be remembered after January 2021


(And an aside to my six friends who were and probably are thoughtful enough to try to tell me what THEY think I mean instead of what "I" mean...hello!)

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
21. President I'm So Scared, is terrified and he shows it.
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 03:11 PM
Jun 2020

I can guarantee you that President Obama was in much more danger the 8 years he was in the White House than this rich, white moran in chief. It's easy to be "brave" when you have used tear gas against peaceful protesters and have your own private security force along with the secret service. I don't think I can make it until January.

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PassingFair

(22,434 posts)
47. Wall Street Journal Article Link via MSN
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 12:21 AM
Jun 2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-agents-lacking-insignia-raise-accountability-concerns/ar-BB157LPG


snip>The Trump administration’s deployment of hundreds of officers in military-style riot gear, sometimes without identifying insignia, has stirred tensions with demonstrators and concerns among watchdog groups and lawmakers about accountability.

Attorney General William Barr has sent hundreds of agents from the Justice Department’s law-enforcement units—the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the federal Bureau of Prisons, in particular—to conduct crowd control and investigate crimes. Adding in thousands of National Guard troops from 10 states, plus local police, makes for a confusing combination. <
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