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Lynn Schmidt: These days, even domestic terrorism is swept into election politics

On Memorial Day, Americans remember those who gave their lives fighting for the freedoms we enjoy. Those we lost had joined all their other military brethren in swearing an oath to the Constitution. While the U.S. Constitution is just a document, it is the values for which it stands that…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Scoop: Tens of thousands of migrants waiting on U.S. doorstep

DHS intelligence is tracking between 40,000 and 50,000 migrants in Mexican shelters.

Axios

Students, teacher dead in Texas elementary school shooting, governor says

Abbott said the shooter was dead.

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Strict U.S. Immigration Laws Leave Migrants Dependent on Human Smugglers

Human smugglers at Mexican border won’t be sought after if migrants can come to the U.S. legally.

Reason

She joined DHS to fight disinformation. She says she was halted by... disinformation

Nina Jankowicz looks back at how exaggerations and falsehoods stoked so many doubts about the Disinformation Governance Board that DHS paused it after just three weeks.

WEKU

US homeland security pauses new disinformation board amid criticism

Nina Jankowicz, the board’s director, resigns and says attacks and threats will not stop her from speaking out on disinformation

The Guardian - US

DHS pauses a board created to combat disinformation amid a campaign to discredit it

The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it would pause the work of a board created to combat disinformation. The board — and its leader — faced an online campaign to discredit its work.

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US warns abortion ruling could increase extremist violence

The federal government is warning law enforcement agencies around the nation of the increased potential for extremist violence following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down the constitutional right to abortion

The Independent UK

Homeland Security puts its "Disinformation Governance Board" on ice

A spokesperson said the board "grossly and intentionally mischaracterized" but DHS will conduct a review.

Axios

The government is preparing for violence if Roe is overturned, per a leaked memo

Threats are “likely to persist and may increase” leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision, the DHS’s intelligence arm said.

Mic

Nina Jankowicz's Faulty Record, Not Her Critics, Doomed the Disinformation Board

And The Washington Post's wildly one-sided account of Jankowicz's fall was an exercise in government PR.

Reason

DHS pauses disinformation board, director will resign

The Department of Homeland Security paused the work of its new disinformation governance board Wednesday

The Independent UK

Leaked memo shows DHS preparing for violence after abortion ruling

Officials are bracing for violence once the ruling is final.

Axios

No Pseudonymity for Lawyer Who Wants to Conceal Litigation Against Government from Future Clients

From Chief Judge Beryl Howell's opinion in Doe v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security (D.D.C. Mar. 14, 2022): Plaintiff, an attorney, has moved to proceed pseudonymously as he litigates his instant claim under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information from various government agencies about a January 2021 incident, during…

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Don't Trust Biden's Dystopian 'Disinformation Board'

A "disinformation" board sounds like something from a dystopian novel.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: The frustration with the new US disinformation board? Too little information

The most troubling problem with the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board is how little information the government has released about it.

Reason

Who needs cyberlaw when we can have unicorns and fairy dust?

Episode 406 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Al Jazeera

Ukrainians fleeing war try different ways to enter the US

Ukrainians are coming to the US on tourist visas, through the southern border or under a new sponsorship programme.

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The Independent UK

GOP ‘ministry of truth’ slurs against Biden’s disinformation board expose their own political tricks, experts say

Republicans are upset about a Biden administration initiative to tackle disinformation because it hits close to home, experts tell Andrew Feinberg

Los Angeles Times

Why did federal police square off with abortion rights protesters in LA streets?

LOS ANGELES — An abortion rights protest had been going on peacefully for hours in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday when a "help call" suddenly went out over police radios about 9 p.m.

The Independent UK

DHS disinformation board's work, plans remain a mystery

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board remains shrouded in secrecy a week after the Biden administration’s announcement of the new effort was met with widespread criticism

The Independent UK

Trump’s homeland security chief intervened to downplay Russia threat in intel report, watchdog says

The report says Chad Wolf ordered a DHS report withheld ‘because it made President Trump look bad and hurt President Trump’s campaign’

The Guardian - US

Trump official interfered in report on Russian election meddling – watchdog

Chad Wolf, then acting homeland security secretary, demanded changes and delayed publication in report, inspector general finds

Reason

The Biden Administration Sees Free Speech As a Public Menace

The alarm aroused by the Disinformation Governance Board is understandable given the administration’s broader assault on messages it considers dangerous.

Axios

Trump DHS altered and twice delayed Russian election interference report, watchdog finds

Staffers told the inspector general the report was delayed as it "hurt President Trump's campaign."

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