The Department of Homeland Security says it would “discontinue” collecting information on members of the press -- a practice that experts said was out of the agency's purview and was alarming and 'disheartening.'
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“Upon learning about the practice, Acting Secretary Wolf directed the DHS Intelligence & Analysis Directorate to immediately discontinue collecting information involving members of the press. In no way does the Acting Secretary condone this practice and he has immediately ordered an inquiry into the matter,” a department spokesperson told ABC News.
"Have I&A personnel been indirectly engaged with detainee operations, for example, by providing collection requirements or requests, or suggested lines of questioning, to detaining authorities or otherwise requesting or receiving information related to detainees," they wrote. A federal agent confronts members of the press near Multnomah County Courthouse, the epicenter of unrest in Portland, on July 26, 2020.“This seems a misguided use of DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis resources on a set of priorities from what they should be. It’s not clear why they issued these open-source intelligence reports,” Javed Ali, who worked on the Trump National Security Council, and in intelligence positions at the FBI and DHS I&A said.
“At the very least they have a perception problem, because it would be it would be highly inappropriate for the department or any intelligence community entity to collect and disseminate information on reporters, or U.S. persons who are not involved in criminal and national security-related activity,” Cohen, an ABC News contributor, told ABC news. “And if this was part of an intentional effort, it would be highly inappropriate and wrong.
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