DHS Whistleblower: Trump Team Wanted Us to Lie About Russia, the Border, and White Supremacy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower leveled a series of bombshell accusations Sunday in his first television interview, accusing his Trump administration superiors of pressing for manipulated intelligence on three critical subjects: Russian support for Donald Trump, the Mexican border, and the white supremacist threat inside the United States.

Brian Murphy, the former principal deputy undersecretary in DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, filed a whistleblower complaint last year — as well as a handful of internal complaints and reports — that all painted a frightening picture of how things were running in the department tasked with keeping Americans safe. “From the outset, there were three things that I was told that we would look to manipulate intelligence on and bend the truth about,” Murphy told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week. “And I told them upfront that I wasn’t going to do it.”

On Russia, the border, and white supremacy, Murphy said he felt “intense pressure to try to take intelligence and fit a political narrative” — accusing administration officials of demanding information be manipulated to burnish Trump’s image and help his messaging

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In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved efforts to denigrate Democratic candidates in order to benefit Trump, an intelligence community report from March found. Putin also authorized a campaign “undermining public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbating socio-political divisions in the U.S” — something that Trump and some of his closest allies readily embraced during and after the election by making repeated false claims of fraud.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dhs-whistleblower-trump-team-wanted-us-to-lie-about-russia-the-border-and-white-supremacy/ar-AAOQnMl

[Silent3]

1. "I am a Republican. But that doesn't come in front of my obligation to use the truth as a north star

...to follow it where it goes.”

Sorry, but if you want to continue to function in Republican politics, Trump is the only north star you're allowed to have any more.

[WHITT]

2. They Also Played A Clip

of Chad Wolf, the acting Director of DHS, testifying to congress that he removed Murphy because he "abused his position", and he "abused his authority", and "possibly violated numerous legal requirements when he personally directed the collection of information on U.S. journalists".

Which means Wolf committed perjury during his testimony to congress. When the hell are we gonna start prosecuting the long string of people from the previous administration who perjured themselves testifying to congress?

[Skittles]

3. how is that not colluding with Russia

fucking TRAITOR

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. They did not want the American public to know that the Russians were supporting Trump."

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5. And the popular media went along with all of it

All the former guy had to do was squawk "No collusion! Fake news!" and the media would obediently drop the matter, regardless of how damning the evidence.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. Even among all this partisan criminality, there was another, much smaller point that stood out.

When you have positions within your organization like "principal deputy undersecretary,'' you might be smothering in bureaucracy. I'd like to see an organizational chart that puts this rather arcane title in context.

[NullTuples]

7. Does any of this matter if it's not under oath or part of an investigation?