We all should know where this is going. At the very least, it'll be used against each sides political opponents and of course to strip away our rights.
https://www.teletrader.com/dhs-setti...694?internal=1
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is establishing a domestic terrorism unit at its intelligence arm.
The new branch is designed to assure the department gets the intelligence necessary to "combat threats posed by domestic terrorism and targeted violence," the agency said.
The news comes after President Joe Biden in January directed law enforcement and intelligence officials to assess the threat of violent domestic extremism after rioters stormed the Capitol building while Congress was in session.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-...ligence-office
The center comes amid reports DHS is working to ramp up its ability to monitor social media activity for potential security threats.
DHS said the center will rely on behavioral threat assessment and management tools and “addresses early-risk factors that can lead to radicalization to violence.”
Waheed said the new intelligence unit could also prove problematic, relying on so-called fusion centers that share information between local, state and federal law enforcement and that have faced bipartisan criticism for doing little to disrupt terror plots.
“Here we are a little over 100 days into the new administration and they simply replaced the office with this new center and doubled down on prior harmful and ineffective centers," Waheed said.
Lawmakers expressed concern over the centers as far back as 2012 following a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee investigation.
“It’s troubling that the very ‘fusion’ centers that were designed to share information in a post-9/11 world have become part of the problem. Instead of strengthening our counterterrorism efforts, they have too often wasted money and stepped on Americans’ civil liberties,” then-Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said at the time.
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