Second Homeland Security agent charged with selling seized synthetic drugs

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/03/justice-department-homeland-security-agent-charged-bath-salts/4901735929276/

A second Homeland Security Investigations agent has been indicted in federal court for conspiring to sell synthetic drugs that were seized as evidence, the Justice Department confirmed.

Nicholas Kindle was stationed in South Jordan, Utah, and is now the second special agent to be indicted in the case, according to the Justice Department.

#DHS #DOJ #Drugs #kewlnews #press

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

#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

"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

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

“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

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/