The domestic agency created after the 9/11 attacks to keep this country 'secure' has consistently ignored or downplayed the largest threat: far-right, anti-government extremists.
on the subject of domestic terrorism, including from soon-to-be protesters exchanging maps of the Capitol’s interior on social media.While some amount of redundancy is certainly to be expected in government, the level introduced by the Department of Homeland Security should raise issues that go beyond the logistical problem of too many cooks in the kitchen.
During the Trump administration, DHS suppressed those populations the president and his advisers deemed the greatest threats to this country, even if that meant young children whose families were seized at the southern border. No less chillingly, during the Trump presidency, DHS Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinellithat the agency had sent its employees to monitor and suppress protests in Portland, Oregon, against the police killing of George Floyd.
Before entering the mental-health field, I spent years living and working as an activist in Russia. Its Federal Security Service, or FSB, has used intimidation, detention without charge, and extra-judicial execution to show everyone from opposition figures to feminist rock bands the might of President Vladimir Putin. Its focus has been on keeping people from challenging the status quo of a patriarchal nation expected to show unquestioning loyalty to its strongman ruler.