The Department of Homeland Security's intelligence arm hit back at Senator Marsha Blackburn's allegations this week, after she accused DHS of trying to police Americans' speech and thoughts.
The Department of Homeland Security's intelligence arm hit back at Senator Marsha Blackburn's allegations this week, after she accused DHS of trying to police Americans' speech and thoughts.
On Tuesday, Senator Blackburn's office sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas begrudging the department's latest, which urges Americans to report "potential threats" online and "maintain digital and media literacy to recognize and build resilience to false or misleading narratives." "We are required to focus on threats to Homeland, and you are repeatedly asked to do this critical work while also protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties, and all other constitutionally protected activities at a time when the threat environment is more complex than ever," the note penned by Acting Under Secretary of Intelligence and Analysis John Cohen, adds.
about efforts to reshape the agency after Portland, noting that the office he now leads "came under the review of the inspector general and other entities."
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