Homeland Security

WARS ON CREDIT: Cost of US ‘War on Terror’ Approaching 6 Trillion

The U.S. is up to its neck in the quagmire of war (and debt) everywhere, and since 9/11 its oxymoronic “war on terror” has cost almost $6 trillion.
Now, a new study on the “Costs of War” by the Watson Institute finds the impact of this will have societal consequences well beyond what we face in the present day.

Watch Federal Agents Interrupt CBS Interview With ICE Whistleblower

In a nationally televised incident that “should disturb every single person living in the United States,” agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General’s Office on Wednesday interrupted an interview with former ICE spokesperson James Schwab, who resigned from his position in March after he was asked to perpetuate lies on behalf of the Trump administration.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen chased out of Mexican restaurant (Video)

A group of activists ambushed Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant, in protest against the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexican border, a policy that goes as as far back as Bill Clinton.
The protesters entered MXDC Cochins Mexicana restaurant on Tuesday chanting ‘Shame!’ and ‘End family separation!’

DHS to Create Journalist-Tracking Database, Labels Critics “Conspiracy Theorists”

(ZHE) — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to track the vast networks of journalists, bloggers and other “media influencers” through a massive, searchable database that will allow them to monitor “any and all” trends in real time, according to a publicly posted job listing. Apparently the NSA doesn’t share their toys with DHS… The […]

Trump Orders US Troops Deployed to Mexico Border ‘Immediately’

(CD) — Fulfilling a “disturbing” proposal first floated during a meeting with Baltic leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump directed the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security on Wednesday to begin working with American governors to deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border “immediately“—a move some have speculated is the result of Fox News coverage of the “caravans” of migrants headed […]