{"id":49194,"date":"2022-11-07T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/34014\/Homeland-Security-Admits-It-Tried-To-Manufacture-Fake-Terrorists-For-Trump.html"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:12:08","slug":"homeland-security-admits-it-tried-to-manufacture-fake-terrorists-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/homeland-security-admits-it-tried-to-manufacture-fake-terrorists-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Admits It Tried To Manufacture Fake Terrorists For Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Analysts would feed protesters\u2019 names into an array of databases, including LexisNexis, a tool used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to hunt undocumented immigrants<\/a><\/span>. Another tool, referred to as \u201cTangles\u201d \u2014 a likely reference to the now-defunct Facebook app CrowdTangle \u2014 was used to \u201c[compile] information from the subject\u2019s available social media profiles.<\/p>\n

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The report also states that dossiers were requested on multiple journalists, including Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Wittes was targeted for publishing unclassified DHS materials, including the initial leak that set off the investigation. Wittes had coauthored an article<\/a><\/span> at Lawfare with Steve Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor, in July 2020, which included leaked guidance \u2014 known as a \u201cjob aid\u201d \u2014 disclosing DHS plans to act on Trump\u2019s executive order. The document, Lawfare reported, implicated \u201cat least parts of the intelligence community\u201d in the \u201cmonitoring and collecting information on some protest activities.\u201d Later leaks obtained by the New York Times<\/a><\/span> included a DHS memo that, among other things, summarized tweets that had been published by Wittes. <\/p>\n

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One tweet, published on July 26 \u2014 a week after Lawfare published the guidance document \u2014 included a leaked email by DHS\u2019s acting chief intelligence officer, relaying orders to begin referring to all violence in Portland as the work of \u201cAntifa.\u201d <\/p>\n

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As the summer nights grew longer and the 2020 elections near, the media spent less time focused on the cause of the demonstrations \u2014 the suffocation of a Black father of five by a white Minneapolis police officer who was outwardly unmoved by Floyd\u2019s desperate pleas for air, or the heartrending cries for his mother. Headlines shifted instead, as if on cue, to focus on the narrative crafted by the president\u2019s flailing reelection campaign; a pre-packed delusion designed to strike fear in voters\u2019 imaginations and tether Democrats to a fictitious terrorist threat.<\/p>\n

Nothing could dissuade Trump from continuing to propagate the claims, which his supporters \u2014 most to this day \u2014 continue to blindly believe. \u201cIn my book it\u2019s virtually a part of their campaign, Antifa,\u201d Trump said<\/a><\/span> in the final months before the election. \u201cThe Democrats act like, gee, I don\u2019t know exactly what that is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s highest ranking intelligence crony, John Ratcliffe, meanwhile, would go on to play the only card left with a little help<\/a><\/span> from Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

Shocking and alarming career intelligence officials, Graham posted a letter online ahead of the election\u2019s final debate. It contained a batch of Russian disinformation that a Republican-led committee had disregarded as bogus four years earlier. Apparently, it focused on the only Democratic left on whom they could find any material with which to smear: Hillary Clinton, who had no election to lose.<\/p>\n