HAHAHA Antifa has brd's now. Police are FUCKED.
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Oh if we're talking about protests again I've already made my views clear so if it's about violence or whatever go shove it up your ass until you choke on it.
DHS compiled ‘intelligence reports’ on journalists who published leaked documents
The Department of Homeland Security has compiled “intelligence reports” about the work of American journalists covering protests in Portland, Ore., in what current and former officials called an alarming use of a government system meant to share information about suspected terrorists and violent actors.
Over the past week, the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis has disseminated three Open Source Intelligence Reports to federal law enforcement agencies and others, summarizing tweets written by two journalists — a reporter for the New York Times and the editor in chief of the blog Lawfare — and noting they had published leaked, unclassified documents about DHS operations in Portland. The intelligence reports, obtained by The Washington Post, include written descriptions and images of the tweets, and the number of times they had been liked or retweeted by others.
Some of the leaked DHS documents the journalists posted and wrote about revealed shortcomings in the department’s understanding of the nature of the protests in Portland, as well as techniques that intelligence analysts have used. A memo by the department’s top intelligence official, which was tweeted by the editor of Lawfare, says personnel relied on “FINTEL,” an acronym for financial intelligence, as well as “Baseball cards” of arrested protesters to try to understand their motivations and plans. Historically, military and intelligence officials have used such cards for biographical dossiers of suspected terrorists, including those targeted in lethal drone strikes.
The DHS intelligence reports, which are unclassified, are traditionally used for sharing the department’s analysis with federal law enforcement agencies, state and local officials and some foreign governments. They are not intended to disseminate information about American citizens who have no connection to terrorists or other violent actors and who are engaged in activity protected by the First Amendment, current and former officials said.
This is probably going to stir up a hornet's nest here but..
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...nst-us/613981/
Thoughts?
It's fine, there's been some overreach and some unworthy casualties, and there's nothing wrong with pointing them out.
At the same time, if you are in a situation that is at a 3/10 and you want to get it to a 7/10, if you freak out every time someone pushes it to 8 you're never going to get to your goal either. Eyes on the prize, don't lose sight of proportionality for absolutism, etc etc.
Yglesias posted a similar article yesterday, zooming in on what happened to David Shor.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox...r-wasow-speech
Oh man hahahahaha. There’s people who really threaten their family by saying if you don’t go protest or donate I’m not coming to thanksgiving dinner? Pfffffhahahahahahaha my god. That’s hysterical.
Hope no more innocent lives fall victim to the violent protests in Portland. Stay safe out there anyone in the area
Now I'm just confused. I thought the Portland in discussion (where the protests/riots are happening) was referring to Portland, OR. So I don't see how linking something from Portland, ME has to do with that aside from having the same city name. Do they keep arrest logs for everyone in the US or something?
The truth is definitely out there.