DHS compiled intelligence reports on protesters arrested in Portland without legal justification, re
Source: The Oregonian
Federal Homeland Security officers compiled intelligence and background reports dubbed baseball cards on people arrested by federal authorities in Portland during protests last summer, despite their charges being unrelated to homeland security threats, according to an internal review made public Friday.
Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said the report confirmed stunning incompetence, mismanagement and abuse of power by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under former President Donald Trumps administration.
The review followed reports last year that the Homeland Security departments Office of Intelligence and Analysis had collected and shared information with federal law enforcement agencies on two journalists a reporter for the New York Times and editor in chief of the blog Lawfare who were covering protests in Portland. The reports noted the journalists had published leaked, unclassified documents about the departments operations in Portland.
Poor training and inadequate guidance contributed to the federal intelligence officers lack of knowledge on legal restrictions for the collection of such information and confusion about what constituted a true threat, the internal Homeland Security report said.
Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/10/dhs-compiled-intelligence-reports-on-protesters-arrested-in-portland-without-legal-justification-report-finds.html
NotHardly
(1,062 posts)... don't believe me... just wait and watch what does not happen to the creeps that did this.
ancianita
(36,053 posts)Only stupid fascists think they can confound the public.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)be able to pardon anybody again. Never. Ever.
Martin68
(22,794 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,028 posts)we were attacked by a hostile domestic government.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Do we have ANYBODY in the government that cannot see the "connections" and problems with these 'events?'
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)Who would have guessed?