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.
The training is part of the “$10 million FY20 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program(TVTP). It was put in place to “identify indicators of radicalization to violence and to assess threats.” In 2020 the “National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) provided 61 threat assessment trainings to 11,688 stakeholders.” The stakeholders include law enforcement, schools, therapists, and “other public safety officials.”
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