Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for #4
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"Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump
A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters
arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary
antifa plot.
ByDell Cameron
PublishedToday 7:45AM
The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that
ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new
documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020
election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.
An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron
Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers
concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump’s acting secretary
of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans
in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the
police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd.
The report describes attempts by top officials to link protesters to an imaginary terrorist plot in an apparent effort to boost Trump’s
reelection odds, raising concerns now about the ability of a sitting
president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. DHS analysts recounted orders to
generate evidence of financial ties between protesters in custody; an
effort that, had they not failed, would have seemingly served to
legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa,” an “organization” that even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed.
“Did not find any evidence that assertion was true”
The DHS report offers a full accounting of the intelligence activities happening behind the scenes of officers’ protest containment; “twisted efforts,” Wyden said, of Trump administration officials promoting
“baseless conspiracy theories” to manufacture of a domestic terrorist threat for the president’s “political gain.” The report describes the dossiers generated by DHS as having detailed the past whereabouts and
the “friends and followers of the subjects, as well as their interests”
— up to and including “First Amendment speech activity.” Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse
anyone caught in the streets by default of being an “anarchist
extremist” specifically because “sufficient facts” were never found “to support such a characterization.”"
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lol Countless conspiracy fantasies were killed, but they will
never die. They will live on forever in the hearts and minds of
retrumplicans everywhere. Assuming that they possess these organs and
that they're in working condition. lol
TB
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