(ProsperNews.net) – A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) advisory board considered Donald Trump supporters, as well as religious Americans, more likely to pose a domestic terror threat. The now-disbanded Homeland Intelligence Experts Group included former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Both men signed a letter in 2020 describing Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal as Russian disinformation.
The revelations concerning the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group came to light when the law firm America First Legal (AFL) published internal files and communications that show the committee saw Trump supporters as the most significant domestic terror threat, along with serving military personnel and religious groups.
AFL Executive Director Gene Hamilton said he looks forward to exposing more “deep state” views as part of his group’s Deep State Diaries online expose. “All efforts to weaponize the federal government against political opponents of the ruling regime should be stopped,” he said.
The Homeland Intelligence Experts Group was established to provide the federal government with expert analysis on extremism and terrorism inside the United States. According to exposed internal documents, the panel planned to collect intelligence on everyday Americans in a “non-threatening way.”
Among the committee’s proposals was encouraging Americans to spy on each other and report political dissent to the government. The question “How do people safely report a concern about their neighbors?” was asked at a panel meeting. Responses included framing political dissent as a public health concern so that citizens would feel a moral obligation to inform on friends and neighbors.
Experts say that tactics used by secret police and other covert government agencies in parts of the Soviet Union were proposed by committee members. East Germany’s Stasi, for instance, relied on information provided by neighbors and family members to root out dissent.
Ric Grenell, acting director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, said he was shocked to see Stasi-like ideas discussed by a group advising the US government. Ric Grenell, acting director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, said he was shocked to see Stasi-like ideas discussed by a group advising the US government.
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