While Homegrown Terrorism Gets Worse, DHS Has Disbanded Domestic Intel Group

on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen looks on during the Conference for Prosperity and Security in Central America on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Leaders from the Centra... WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen looks on during the Conference for Prosperity and Security in Central America on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Leaders from the Central American countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras met with U.S. leaders at the second Conference for Prosperity and Security in Central America. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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While the threat from domestic terrorism grows, especially from white supremacist groups, the Department of Homeland Security has disbanded an intelligence squad dedicated to studying homegrown terrorists, according to the Daily Beast.

The group was housed under the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and gave reports on its findings to state and local officials to help them prepare for and know the signs of festering hate groups and lone wolf attackers.

DHS told the Daily Beast that shuttering the group was just part of a restructuring effort.

“The same people are working on the issues,” a spokesperson said. “We just restructured things to be more responsive to the I&A customers within DHS and in local communities while reducing overlap with what the FBI does. We actually believe we are far more effective now.”

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  1. Why is this woman looking thoughtful?

    It’s called “acting.”

  2. DHS told the Daily Beast that shuttering the group was just part of a restructuring effort.

    “The same people are working on the issues,” a spokesperson said. “We just restructured things to be more responsive to the I&A customers within DHS and in local communities while reducing overlap with what the FBI does. We actually believe we are far more effective now.”

    Gobbly-gook, argle bargle, makes my head hurt this early in the AM.

  3. I wonder who these “customers” are.

  4. Can’t have anybody observing coordination with the brown shirts now, can we?

  5. "We actually believe we are far more effective now.”

    And we’re much closer to legitimizing right wing terror as a patriotic tool of good governance.

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