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The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall—a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally found a role for himself: proclaim victory and then stick a flag in it!
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Mark Bowden (Worm: The First Digital World War)
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A 389-page audit released in 2020 found that money overseen by the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) and intended for the state’s poorest families was used to hire an evangelical worship singer who performed at rallies and church concerts; to purchase a Nissan Armada, Chevrolet Silverado, and Ford F-250 for the head of a local nonprofit and two of her family members; and even to pay the former NFL quarterback Brett Favre $1.1 million for speeches he never gave.
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Matthew Desmond (Poverty, by America)
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There’s something else,” he said. “What?” “I wasn’t going to mention it, but I want you to understand why I have to do this.” “Jesus, Jolu, what?” “I hate to say it, but you’re white. I’m not. White people get caught with cocaine and do a little rehab time. Brown people get caught with crack and go to prison for twenty years. White people see cops on the street and feel safer. Brown people see cops on the street and wonder if they’re about to get searched. The way the DHS is treating you? The law in this country has always been like that for us.
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Cory Doctorow (Little Brother (Little Brother, #1))
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This meeting included representatives from all the three-letter agencies, the Coast Guard, CBP, DHS, his military groups,
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James Rosone (Monroe Doctrine: Volume I (Monroe Doctrine, #1))
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The Texas facilities were to be run by private prison companies—the GEO Group and CoreCivic—which had been involved in immigration detention since the mid-1980s and were profiting from an ever-larger share of DHS contracts.
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Jonathan Blitzer (Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis)
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And then there’s Mississippi. A 389-page audit released in 2020 found that money overseen by the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) and intended for the state’s poorest families was used to hire an evangelical worship singer who performed at rallies and church concerts; to purchase a Nissan Armada, Chevrolet Silverado, and Ford F-250 for the head of a local nonprofit and two of her family members; and even to pay the former NFL quarterback Brett Favre $1.1 million for speeches he never gave. (Favre later returned the money.) There’s more.
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Matthew Desmond (Poverty, by America)
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The same grant programs that paid for local law enforcement agencies across the country to buy armored personnel carriers and drones have paid for Stingrays," said the ALCU's Soghoian. "Like drones, license plate readers, and biometric scanners, the Stingrays are yet another surveillance technology created by defense contractors for the military, and after years of use in war zones, it eventually trickles down to local and state agencies, paid for with DOJ and DHS money.
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Jeremy Scahill (The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program)
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Ted’s a Bushman with deep ties to the political and financial establishment. Ted and Heidi brag about being the first “Bush marriage”—they met as Bush staffers and that meeting ultimately led to matrimony. Ted was an adviser on legal affairs while Heidi was an adviser on economic policy and eventually director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice. Condi helped give us the phony war in Iraq. And Chad Sweet, Ted Cruz’s campaign chairman, is a former CIA officer. Michael Chertoff, George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Homeland Security, hired Sweet from Goldman Sachs to restructure and optimize the flow of information between the CIA, FBI and other members of the national security community and DHS.
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Roger Stone (The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution)
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Arizona used welfare dollars to pay for abstinence-only sex education. Pennsylvania diverted TANF funds to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers. Maine used the money to support a Christian summer camp.[14] And then there’s Mississippi. A 389-page audit released in 2020 found that money overseen by the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) and intended for the state’s poorest families was used to hire an evangelical worship singer who performed at rallies and church concerts; to purchase a Nissan Armada, Chevrolet Silverado, and Ford F-250 for the head of a local nonprofit and two of her family members; and even to pay the former NFL quarterback Brett Favre $1.1 million for speeches he never gave.
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Matthew Desmond (Poverty, by America)
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The reason why Google’s parent company is called Alphabet Inc. is because this has long been a Pentagon byword for the federal government’s conglomeration of tyrannical agencies; CIA, NSA, NRO, FBI, IRS, DEA, DOD, DHS, etc. As I said before, with the government’s admitted “misplaced” 2.3 trillion dollars, I believe they purchased Google, YouTube, Facebook, AT&T, as well as many other communication and television companies, in order to better spy on, and control, the world and their own citizens. Central Intelligence means Central Information. Google/YouTube is obviously not in business to make money,
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Bart Sibrel (Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List)
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China representa una amenaza concreta debido a que, como veremos en el próximo capítulo, tiene a su disposición toda la base de datos de TikTok, la cual es un repositorio gigante de archivos de video, audio e imagen necesarios para que el algoritmo entrene a una red generativa adversaria.154 Por eso, debido a los problemas geopolíticos que se podrían generar a partir de videos falsos, la Agencia de Proyectos de Investigación Avanzada de Defensa (DARPA, por sus siglas en inglés) de Estados Unidos ha invertido más de ٦٨ millones de dólares en sistemas de análisis forenses digitales para combatir la tecnología emergente y, en el año 2019, el Congreso de Estados Unidos aprobó una ley que exige que el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés) reporte constantemente el estado actual de las tecnologías de falsificación de contenido digital.155
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Pablo Munoz Iturrieta (Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro: Manipulación, control y destrucción del ser humano (Spanish Edition))
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And then there’s Mississippi. A 389-page audit released in 2020 found that money overseen by the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) and intended for the state’s poorest families was used to hire an evangelical worship singer who performed at rallies and church concerts; to purchase a Nissan Armada, Chevrolet Silverado, and Ford F-250 for the head of a local nonprofit and two of her family members; and even to pay the former NFL quarterback Brett Favre $1.1 million for speeches he never gave. (Favre later returned the money.) There’s more. DHS contractors squandered TANF dollars on college football tickets, a private school, a twelve-week fitness camp that state legislators could attend free of charge ($1.3 million), and a donation to the University of Southern Mississippi for a wellness center ($5 million). Welfare funds also went to a ministry run by former professional wrestler Ted DiBiase—the Million Dollar Man and the author of the memoir Every Man Has His Price—for speeches and wrestling events. DiBiase’s price was $2.1 million. Brett DiBiase, the Million Dollar Man’s son, was serving as deputy administrator for Mississippi’s Department of Human Services at the time. He and five others have been indicted on fraud and embezzlement charges.[15]
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Matthew Desmond (Poverty, by America)
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Writer and internet activist Clay Shirky has noted that "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Fear is the problem.
It's a fear that's stoked by the day's news. As soon as there's a horrific crime or a terrorist attack that supposedly could have been prevented if only the FBI or DHS had had access to some data stored by Facebook or encrypted in an iPhone, people will demand to know why the FBI or DHS didn't have access to that data-why they were prevent from "connecting the dots." And then the laws will change to give them even more authority. Jack Goldsmith again: "The government will increase its powers to meet the national security threat fully (because the People demand it)."
We need a better way to handle our emotional responses to terrorism than by giving our government carte blanche to violate our freedoms, in some desperate attempt to feel safe again. If we don't find one, then, as they say, the terrorists will truly have won. One goal of government is to provide security for its people, but in democracies, we need to take risks. A society that refuses risk-in crime, terrorism, or elsewhere-is by definition a police state. And a police state brings with it its own dangers.
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Bruce Schneier (Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World)
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At the old welfare program’s height in 1994, it served more than 14.2 million people—4.6 million adults and 9.6 million children. In 2012, the year Modonna took her trip to the DHS office, there were only 4.4 million people left on the rolls—1.1 million adults (about a quarter of whom were working) and 3.3 million kids. That’s a 69 percent decline. By fall 2014, the TANF caseload had fallen to 3.8 million. Before
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Kathryn J. Edin ($2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America)
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Surprisingly, Clinton and her advisers believe that the most dramatic day of the campaign, October 7th, the day of the “Access Hollywood” tape, was a disaster for them. Early that day, the director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Homeland Security released a statement concluding that the Russians had been attempting to interfere in the U.S. election process. But when, shortly afterward, the Washington Post released the tape—in which Donald Trump describes how he grabs women by the genitals and moves on them “like a bitch”—the D.H.S. statement was eclipsed. “My heart sank,” Jennifer Palmieri, a top Clinton adviser, recalled. “My first reaction was ‘No! Focus on the intelligence statement!’ The ‘Access Hollywood’ tape was not good for Trump, obviously, but it was more likely to hurt him with the people who were already against him. His supporters had made their peace with his awful behavior.”
That evening, a third media vortex formed, as Julian Assange went to work. WikiLeaks began to dole out a new tranche of stolen e-mails. “It seemed clear to us that the Russians were again being guided by our politics,” Clinton said. “Someone was offering very astute political advice about how to weaponize information, how to convey it, how to use the existing Russian outlets, like RT or Sputnik, how to use existing American vehicles, like Facebook.
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David Remnick
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In 2013, a federal judge ruled in favor of Judicial Watch, chastising the agency for withholding documents, and he specifically ruled against DHS’s improper claim of attorney-client privilege. The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch showed that DHS officials misled Congress and the public about its implementation of a new policy that resulted in the dismissal of multiple deportation cases against illegal alien criminals convicted of violent crimes. The administration decided to halt almost all enforcement actions (on an alleged “case-by-case” basis) against any illegal alien who has not committed any other “serious” crimes. As a result, it is failing to protect citizens from the scourge of rampant illegal immigration and criminal illegal aliens. In 2014, Judicial Watch filed another FOIA lawsuit to get more information about this issue, after the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported that 36,000 criminal aliens who were awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings were released by DHS in 2013.3 This group consisted of aliens convicted of hundreds of serious, often violent crimes, including homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault. The 36,000 criminal aliens had nearly 88,000 convictions, including one for willfully killing a public official with a gun. Yet this alien, and tens of thousands of other dangerous thugs, were released by DHS onto an unsuspecting American public.
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Tom Fitton (Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies)
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Michelle stood and fixed her gaze on him. “We’ve been lied to, almost shot, nearly blown to hell, and pushed around by dickheads from the Army, DHS, and now the FBI. So I can tell you flat-out that whether you want to ‘partner’ with us or not, we’re working this case. So stick that up your ass and see how it fits”—she glanced at his ID on a lanyard around his neck—“Dwayne.” Sean muttered, “Holy Mother of God,” and put his hand over his eyes.
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David Baldacci (King and Maxwell (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #6))
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Demonstrating the Obama administration’s awareness of both the lawlessness of its actions and the fact that they were certain to undermine legislative efforts to reform immigration law in a manner consistent with the Constitution, one DHS memorandum observed: Even many who have supported a legislated legalization program may question the legitimacy of trying to accomplish the same end via administrative action, particularly after five years where the two parties have treated this as a matter to be decided in Congress.3
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Andrew McCarthy (Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment)
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One was a complaint from a DHS field operative about a target who'd installed "ParanoidAndroid" on his phone and couldn't be gotten at. "What's ParanoidAndroid?" I asked. "I'm reading up on that now," Ange said. "Looks like it's a fork from the CyanogenMod." I knew about Cyanogen, of course -- hackers had taken the source code for Google's Android operating system and made a fully free and open version that could do all kinds of cool tricks.
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Anonymous
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The placement of the statue at DHS was not just to honor film-making, but to suggest that the guests are being filmed as they enter the park and are part of the motion picture they are about to experience. At
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Jim Korkis (Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew)
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The DHS Child Care Assistance Program had finally approved my application. They were paying for daycare and after school care for my oldest three kids.
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Jessica N. Watkins (Secrets of a Side Bitch 3)
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The Department of Homeland Security announces today that the Transportation Security Administration is expanding its mission to include protecting not just airports, but the interstates and railroads of the United States. As Americans travel, they’ll start noticing checkpoints along the interstates where the TSA and DHS will randomly stop travelers so we can protect the United States from terrorist attacks. With the help of the new national identification cards we’re now issuing, the TSA will be able to keep track of where Americans are going. If you’re traveling from your home, in say, Philadelphia, and you tell the TSA you’re going to Toledo, the TSA’s computer will follow that up by examining the checkpoints in Ohio that lead to Toledo. Tracking chips in these new ID’s, which will only be active when you travel, will ping your ID to see if you arrived at your location. Once the TSA is satisfied, your ID will be no longer pinged.
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Cliff Ball (Times of Turmoil)
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We have our orders from DHS, we’ve made sure each location has been scouted, and that each person we’re set to arrest is accounted for. We should be able to get through this with a minimum amount of bloodshed, at least in theory. If you have to use your weapons, make sure the neighborhoods surrounding the buildings are secure and none of the neighbors hear gunfire. We have a limited amount of time each week to do this, so it will take us a few weeks to round up all of the people we need to round up. Once we get the people rounded up, we use their own buses to transport them to the FEMA camp.
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Cliff Ball (Times of Trial: Christian End Times Thriller (The End Times Saga Book 3))
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clearly remembers the Soviet Union collapsing, so when I was a kid, he kept saying that the Affordable Health Care Act, and the way the NSA, DHS, EPA, and TSA were acting, was inching us closer to that system of government. Now, along with the United Nations’ Agenda 21, we’re almost there. I really wish the Conservative Party and Victor Tyson could win the Presidency, because he would ask the U.N. to leave and try to get us back to being a federal republic,
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Cliff Ball (Times of Trial: Christian End Times Thriller (The End Times Saga Book 3))
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The government wants to know why you’re not preventing people from bypassing the TSA checkpoints. That’s illegal you know,” “I want to know why DHS thinks they can come on a sovereign nation’s land and demand such things,” “Because I gave them permission, Sheriff. Now please answer his question,” stated the Tribal Chairman, Pete Yazzie, as he appeared from Jonathon’s office. “I figure nobody ever ordered me not to stop people from bypassing the interstates, so why should I stop them? Besides, there are too many roads and not enough of my people to stop everyone,” “You could’ve called on Homeland Security. We would’ve sent agents to help out,” “And have the federal government oppress the Diné some more? No thanks, we’ve already tried that,” “I don’t like your attitude, Sheriff. Things are changing, and you better get behind the change, otherwise, you’ll find yourself somewhere you don’t want to be,” “Is that a threat?” “No, just a warning. Now, I have some questions about some people
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Cliff Ball (Times of Trial: Christian End Times Thriller (The End Times Saga Book 3))
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The two Suburban’s disappeared and Jonathon didn’t ask questions. The eight DHS agents were sent to Gallup by way of the back roads, where the police there were told to keep the agents out of sight, even if they had to go back and forth through the Four Corners region. Jonathon waited to see what the government would do, but nothing happened.
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Cliff Ball (Times of Trial: Christian End Times Thriller (The End Times Saga Book 3))
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The attack on 9/11 was a localized event, affecting only a relatively small number of Americans. As indicated earlier, the general threat of terrorism, even factoring in the large death toll on that tragic day, produces a statistically insignificant threat to the average person’s life. People across the country, however, were gripped with fear. And because we are an object-oriented people, most felt the need to project that fear onto something. Some people stopped flying in airplanes, worried about a repeat attack—and for years afterward, air travel always dipped on the anniversary of 9/11.4 Of course, this was and is an irrational fear; it is safer to travel by plane than by car. According to the National Safety Council, in 2010 there were over 22,000 passenger deaths involving automobiles, while no one died in scheduled airline travel that year.5 Nevertheless, Congress responded by rushing through the USA PATRIOT Act six weeks after 9/11—a 240-plus page bill that was previously written, not available to the public prior to the vote, and barely available to the elected officials in Congress, none of whom read it through before casting their votes.6 Two weeks previous to the bill’s passage, President Bush had announced the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security to “develop and coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the United States from terrorist threats or attacks.” He explained that “[t]he Office will coordinate the executive branch’s efforts to detect, prepare for, prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks within the United States.”7 The office’s efforts culminated in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) one year later as a result of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. This law consolidated executive branch organizations related to “homeland security” into a single Cabinet department; twenty-two total agencies became part of this new apparatus. The government, responding to the outcry from a fearful citizenry, was eager to “do something.” All of this (and much, much more), affecting all Americans, because of a localized event materially affecting only a few. But while the event directly impacted only a small percentage of the population, its impact was felt throughout the entire country.
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Connor Boyack (Feardom: How Politicians Exploit Your Emotions and What You Can Do to Stop Them)
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Shannon grasped that the administration’s blanket new approach threatened to stifle all the ongoing refugee and immigration programs at a stroke: “The administration announces that people coming from certain countries need to be vetted in a special way or need special visa processing, like Iran. Then you end up with a scientist from Cambridge University in the UK, who’s lived in Great Britain all his life but still has an Iranian passport, suddenly is stopped at Boston airport and told he can’t go to the conference at Harvard. And that person calls Cambridge and Cambridge calls Boris Johnson and Boris Johnson calls somebody, and so there was a whole effort that had to be made to kind of fix what was coming out of the White House. And at that time, in the very early days, General Kelly was at DHS. And I knew Kelly well, from his days first as Leon Panetta’s military aide, but then as US Southern Command combatant commander. And so Kelly and I would get on the phone and say, ‘Okay, how are we going to figure this out?’ So we would create these small working groups, and his staff and my staff would then try to fix what was being presented. So that was a kind of immediate and everyday example of how we tried to fix things.
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David Rothkopf (American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation)
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This official was struggling to convey what one the former DHS secretary, Janet Napolitano, had pithily said: “Show me a fifty-foot wall and I’ll show you a fifty-one-foot ladder.” But Trump didn’t get it.
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David Rothkopf (American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation)
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fact, the effort by the DHS in creating these centers,” according to Dube, “was to allow local law enforcement to respond more quickly whenever someone is spotted casing out a bridge, a bank, or a high rise building as part of planning for another terrorist attack.
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James Morcan (The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy)
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There’s more. DHS contractors squandered TANF dollars on college football tickets, a private school, a twelve-week fitness camp that state legislators could attend free of charge ($1.3 million), and a donation to the University of Southern Mississippi for a wellness center ($5 million). Welfare funds also went to a ministry run by former professional wrestler Ted DiBiase—the Million Dollar Man and the author of the memoir Every Man Has His Price—for speeches and wrestling events. DiBiase’s price was $2.1 million. Brett DiBiase, the Million Dollar Man’s son, was serving as deputy administrator for Mississippi’s Department of Human Services at the time. He and five others have been indicted on fraud and embezzlement charges.
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Matthew Desmond (Poverty, by America)
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In addition, when they applied, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured them it would follow its long-standing practice not to use their information for law enforcement purposes except in very limited circumstances. “These young people,” I said to General Kelly, “are now worried that the information they provided in good faith to our government may now be used to track them down and lead to their removal.” Hundreds of thousands of them have relied on our representations.
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Kamala Harris (The Truths We Hold: An American Journey)
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The DHS detention center
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Bryan Cohen (Enemy Territory (Viral Superhero, #4))
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NCCIC delivers a full spectrum of cyber exercise planning workshops and seminars, and conducts tabletop, full-scale, and functional exercises, as well as the biennial National Cyber Exercise: Cyber Storm and the annual Cyber Guard Prelude exercise. These events are designed to assist organizations at all levels in the development and testing of cybersecurity prevention, protection, mitigation, and response capabilities.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS Election Infrastructure Security Resource Guide)
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DHS now has more than 200,000 employees. We’re into everything, and we’re not doing anything well,
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Scott Matthews (Dark Trojan (Adam Drake #3))
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Even if there were some kind of revolution from below, Western states are incredibly well equipped to deal with them. Conservatives comfort themselves with the knowledge that “we have the guns”, and this is true, but the state could easily deal with even a sizeable number of these people engaging in armed revolt. For years now, Western regimes have been turning their sights to the perceived threat of the right. In the United States, organisations like the FBI, CIA, DHS are heavily militarised and trained extensively in counter-terrorism. This is not to mention the enormous surveillance capabilities of the modern state, or the capacity to cut revolutionary movements off from the financial system. The disparity of powers is so great it seems absurd to even consider a serious domestic threat emerging to the state. We don’t even know all the techniques at its disposal in the event of having to subdue a large segment of its population, but we know it has directed large amounts of resources to dealing with this possibility.
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Keith Woods
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Suddenly, as if overnight—although of course, like the reinforcing loops discussed earlier, the events were actually set in motion a century ago and are just now exploding into view—you end up with senior executives from Big Tech meeting with senior officials of DHS to discuss the censoring of the American people via what amounts to
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Ned Ryun (American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism)
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Now picture this on a national scale: under the next Trump, DHS might automatically respond to emergencies in red states but hold out on blue states unless they capitulate to White House demands. This was how Trump wanted to handle the disbursement of disaster aid to everywhere from Puerto Rico to California. The possibilities for corruption are limitless… Elected leaders should conduct an end-to-end review of DHS with an eye of insulating the Department from this kind of political abuse. No agency is fully immune to presidential misconduct, yet with such a long roster of White House appointees, the shield of American government is particularly susceptible to it. In particular, Congress should put career officials in charge of key agencies for multi-year terms, spanning presidential administrations and should pass legislation to reign in domestic security powers.
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Miles Taylor (A Warning)