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Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.)
Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Sen. Elisa Slotkin (Mich.)
#KristiNoem #DHS #Democrats
Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.)
Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Sen. Elisa Slotkin (Mich.)
#KristiNoem #DHS #Democrats
What's in store if #HR9495 goes through? Let's revisit this "blast from the past" from 2020...
#FederalAgents Used #ToxicChemical #SmokeGrenades in #PortlandOregon
Portland protesters report severe and lasting #SideEffects from the #ChemicalWeapons used during #Trump’s “#OperationDiligentValor.”
by Sharon Lerner
October 10 2020
"By the time she was standing in front of the federal courthouse on #LownsdaleSquare on the night of July 25, Olivia Katbi Smith had already been exposed to tear gas several times. On those previous occasions during the #BlackLivesMatter #protests in Portland, Oregon, this summer, being gassed had been very unpleasant: leaving her coughing and making her eyes and nose run and sting.
"But this time, standing about 30 feet from the fence that was surrounding the downtown courthouse, Smith felt suddenly and violently worse than she ever had before. 'I didn’t know if I was going to puke or pass out,' she recalled recently. 'I was stumbling, trying to get away.' Smith, who is 28, was wearing goggles plus an N95 mask and thought that whatever was making her ill might have been trapped inside her mask. 'So I made a really bad instinctual decision to take it off,' she said. 'And instead of bringing relief, it instantly felt so much worse, like I was trapped in the air. It was overwhelming. I could not breathe.'
"Smith, like thousands of others in Portland, took to the streets in June to protest the suffocation and killing of #GeorgeFloyd by a police officer. By the beginning of July, the crowds had begun to thin somewhat. But after #Trump decided to send federal law enforcement to the city that month, the number of protesters surged and violence escalated. And according to interviews with more than a dozen people who attended the protests and research by the Portland-based #ChemicalWeapons Research Consortium, there was a marked shift in the use of chemical munitions on the crowds in the second half of July, as the federal agents released greater amounts and different types of smoke and gas onto crowds that seemed to set off severe and sometimes lasting health effects.
"The Portland Police Bureau began using tear gas on Black Lives Matters protesters almost as soon as they first assembled in late May. Mayor Ted Wheeler acknowledged that the city has used '#CSTearGas.' The commonly used formulation contains 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile, a compound that was designed to induce immediate pain but can also have long-term effects, including chronic bronchitis. In early September, Wheeler ordered the police to stop using it. #TearGas is banned in war but can be used to disperse crowds of civilians.
After federal agents from the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity descended on Portland in July in a mission dubbed #OperationDiligentValor,' the use of chemical irritants to control, drive away, and confuse protesters and obscure the actions of law enforcement grew and intensified. Among the products that federal agents appear to have used during the #military-style #crackdown is a #hexachloroethane '#SmokeGrenade' manufactured by a company called #DefenseTechnology and sold as '#MaximumHCSmoke.' Volunteers for the Chemical Weapons Research Consortium collected 20 canisters from the protest area that are the size and shape of the smoke grenades, at least five of which still had Defense Technology labels on them. The group also analyzed the chemical residue on one of the recovered spent canisters and found it contained chemicals known to be released by the smoke grenades."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/10/portland-tear-gas-chemical-grenades-protests/
#DHS #KristiNoem #StopHR9495
#FederalAgents Used #ToxicChemical #SmokeGrenades in #PortlandOregon
Portland protesters report severe and lasting #SideEffects from the #ChemicalWeapons used during #Trump’s “#OperationDiligentValor.”
by Sharon Lerner
October 10 2020
"By the time she was standing in front of the federal courthouse on #LownsdaleSquare on the night of July 25, Olivia Katbi Smith had already been exposed to tear gas several times. On those previous occasions during the #BlackLivesMatter #protests in Portland, Oregon, this summer, being gassed had been very unpleasant: leaving her coughing and making her eyes and nose run and sting.
"But this time, standing about 30 feet from the fence that was surrounding the downtown courthouse, Smith felt suddenly and violently worse than she ever had before. 'I didn’t know if I was going to puke or pass out,' she recalled recently. 'I was stumbling, trying to get away.' Smith, who is 28, was wearing goggles plus an N95 mask and thought that whatever was making her ill might have been trapped inside her mask. 'So I made a really bad instinctual decision to take it off,' she said. 'And instead of bringing relief, it instantly felt so much worse, like I was trapped in the air. It was overwhelming. I could not breathe.'
"Smith, like thousands of others in Portland, took to the streets in June to protest the suffocation and killing of #GeorgeFloyd by a police officer. By the beginning of July, the crowds had begun to thin somewhat. But after #Trump decided to send federal law enforcement to the city that month, the number of protesters surged and violence escalated. And according to interviews with more than a dozen people who attended the protests and research by the Portland-based #ChemicalWeapons Research Consortium, there was a marked shift in the use of chemical munitions on the crowds in the second half of July, as the federal agents released greater amounts and different types of smoke and gas onto crowds that seemed to set off severe and sometimes lasting health effects.
"The Portland Police Bureau began using tear gas on Black Lives Matters protesters almost as soon as they first assembled in late May. Mayor Ted Wheeler acknowledged that the city has used '#CSTearGas.' The commonly used formulation contains 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile, a compound that was designed to induce immediate pain but can also have long-term effects, including chronic bronchitis. In early September, Wheeler ordered the police to stop using it. #TearGas is banned in war but can be used to disperse crowds of civilians.
After federal agents from the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity descended on Portland in July in a mission dubbed #OperationDiligentValor,' the use of chemical irritants to control, drive away, and confuse protesters and obscure the actions of law enforcement grew and intensified. Among the products that federal agents appear to have used during the #military-style #crackdown is a #hexachloroethane '#SmokeGrenade' manufactured by a company called #DefenseTechnology and sold as '#MaximumHCSmoke.' Volunteers for the Chemical Weapons Research Consortium collected 20 canisters from the protest area that are the size and shape of the smoke grenades, at least five of which still had Defense Technology labels on them. The group also analyzed the chemical residue on one of the recovered spent canisters and found it contained chemicals known to be released by the smoke grenades."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/10/portland-tear-gas-chemical-grenades-protests/
#DHS #KristiNoem #StopHR9495
Federal Agents Used Toxic Chemical Smoke Grenades in Portland
Portland protesters report severe and lasting side effects from the chemical weapons used during Trump’s “Operation Diligent Valor.”Sharon Lerner (The Intercept)
It's interesting to listen to US officials are still trying to grapple with Luigi Mangione's folk hero status.
Here's the Biden administration's Secretary of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
#DHS #Mayorkas #luigimangione #Biden
Here's the Biden administration's Secretary of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
#DHS #Mayorkas #luigimangione #Biden
#DHS Says #China, #Russia, #Iran, and #Israel Are Spying on People in #US with #SS7
https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-china-russia-iran-and-israel-are-spying-on-people-in-us-with-ss7/
#cybersecurity #privacy
https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-china-russia-iran-and-israel-are-spying-on-people-in-us-with-ss7/
#cybersecurity #privacy
DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7
The Department of Homeland Security knows which countries SS7 attacks are primarily originating from. Others include countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) believes that China, Russia, Iran, and Israel are the “primary” countries exploiting security holes in telecommunications networks to spy on people inside the United States, which can include tracking their physical movements and intercepting calls and texts, according to information released by Senator Ron Wyden.
The news provides more context around use of SS7, the exploited network and protocol, against phones in the country. In May, 404 Media reported that an official inside DHS’s Cybersecurity Insurance and Security Agency (CISA) broke with his department’s official narrative and publicly warned about multiple SS7 attacks on U.S. persons in recent years. Now, the newly disclosed information provides more specifics on where at least some SS7 attacks are originating from."
https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-china-russia-iran-and-israel-are-spying-on-people-in-us-with-ss7/
#USA #CyberSecurity #DHS #SS7 #MobilePhones #Surveillance
The news provides more context around use of SS7, the exploited network and protocol, against phones in the country. In May, 404 Media reported that an official inside DHS’s Cybersecurity Insurance and Security Agency (CISA) broke with his department’s official narrative and publicly warned about multiple SS7 attacks on U.S. persons in recent years. Now, the newly disclosed information provides more specifics on where at least some SS7 attacks are originating from."
https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-china-russia-iran-and-israel-are-spying-on-people-in-us-with-ss7/
#USA #CyberSecurity #DHS #SS7 #MobilePhones #Surveillance
DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7
The Department of Homeland Security knows which countries SS7 attacks are primarily originating from. Others include countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
It's the well-meant but naïve doctrine of "healing", combined with the sands of Trumpist remnants in DOJ gears, that allowed Trump to run for White House again, without being held accountable for the capital crime of having incited & engaging in an insurrection against the authority of the United States.
We could have learned from "healing" hopes & dreams of the Reconstruction era - while we didn't find our ways to effectively fight & remove the ethical, antihuman flaws accompanying the evolution of exclusive American democracy, the disgraceful heritage of slavery & the equally degrading denial of its existence.
Now we'll be going to see the unsolicited results of neglected accountability & take it for granted, it won't be fun days.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/jack-smith-drops-case-trump-trials-immunity-doj.html
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Trump #NationalSecurityThreat #PublicDanger #Terrorism #Insurrection #ObstructionOfJustice #DOJ #DHS #Law #USPol #USPolitics
We could have learned from "healing" hopes & dreams of the Reconstruction era - while we didn't find our ways to effectively fight & remove the ethical, antihuman flaws accompanying the evolution of exclusive American democracy, the disgraceful heritage of slavery & the equally degrading denial of its existence.
Now we'll be going to see the unsolicited results of neglected accountability & take it for granted, it won't be fun days.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/jack-smith-drops-case-trump-trials-immunity-doj.html
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Trump #NationalSecurityThreat #PublicDanger #Terrorism #Insurrection #ObstructionOfJustice #DOJ #DHS #Law #USPol #USPolitics
The Fatal Flaw That Doomed the Trump Trials
Goodnight, Trump federal cases. Goodnight, New York hush money sentencing. Goodnight, Justice Department independence.Andrea Bernstein (Slate)
“WIRED first reported that the technology was acquired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ice)—an agency within D.H.S. that will soon be involved in executing the Trump Administration’s promises of mass deportations and crackdowns on border crossings…
In September, the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) signed a two-million-dollar contract with Paragon, an Israeli firm whose spyware product Graphite focusses on breaching encrypted-messaging applications such as Telegram and Signal.”
#dhs #israel #paragon
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-technology-the-trump-administration-could-use-to-hack-your-phone
paywall free: https://archive.ph/2024.11.20-233526/https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-technology-the-trump-administration-could-use-to-hack-your-phone
In September, the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) signed a two-million-dollar contract with Paragon, an Israeli firm whose spyware product Graphite focusses on breaching encrypted-messaging applications such as Telegram and Signal.”
#dhs #israel #paragon
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-technology-the-trump-administration-could-use-to-hack-your-phone
paywall free: https://archive.ph/2024.11.20-233526/https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-technology-the-trump-administration-could-use-to-hack-your-phone
Court documents reveal secretive federal unit deployed for 'Operation Diligent Valor' in Oregon
By Gabriella Borter
July 22, 2020
Reuters - "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has deployed more than 100 federal agents to #PortlandOregon, on a mission named '#OperationDiligentValor' to patrol government buildings as anti-racism protests flared this month, court documents show.
"The documents, filed on Tuesday, helped shed light on what had been a secretive operation that involved days of violent clashes between unidentified federal law enforcement officers and #AntiRacist #protesters outside a federal courthouse.
"The operation has involved the Department of Homeland Security's #RapidDeploymentForce. It stepped up its response to "increasingly violent attacks" in the Oregon city on July 4, the day after a group of people broke into the courthouse, according to the affidavit by the Federal Protective Services (#FPS) regional director, Gabriel Russell.
"The affidavit was filed by the Department of Homeland Security [#DHS] and the U.S. Marshals Service as part of a broader lawsuit brought by journalists against the city of Portland and those agencies. The plantiffs claim that police had attempted to 'intimidate the press' by attacking journalists."
Read more:
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/court-documents-reveal-secretive-federal-unit-deployed-for-operation-diligent-v-idUSKCN24N2SH/
By Gabriella Borter
July 22, 2020
Reuters - "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has deployed more than 100 federal agents to #PortlandOregon, on a mission named '#OperationDiligentValor' to patrol government buildings as anti-racism protests flared this month, court documents show.
"The documents, filed on Tuesday, helped shed light on what had been a secretive operation that involved days of violent clashes between unidentified federal law enforcement officers and #AntiRacist #protesters outside a federal courthouse.
"The operation has involved the Department of Homeland Security's #RapidDeploymentForce. It stepped up its response to "increasingly violent attacks" in the Oregon city on July 4, the day after a group of people broke into the courthouse, according to the affidavit by the Federal Protective Services (#FPS) regional director, Gabriel Russell.
"The affidavit was filed by the Department of Homeland Security [#DHS] and the U.S. Marshals Service as part of a broader lawsuit brought by journalists against the city of Portland and those agencies. The plantiffs claim that police had attempted to 'intimidate the press' by attacking journalists."
Read more:
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/court-documents-reveal-secretive-federal-unit-deployed-for-operation-diligent-v-idUSKCN24N2SH/