'She's Lying': Journalist Exposes Secret Watch Lists That Trump Official Says Don't Exist
"Despite denials from a senior Trump administration official, secret watchlists of Americans are being used by federal agencies to track and categorize US citizens—especially protesters, activists, and critics of law enforcement—as 'domestic terrorists,' investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein reported Wednesday."
"Klippenstein said that two senior national security officials speaking on condition of anonymity told him that there are over a dozen 'secret and obscure' watchlists that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI are using to track anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and pro-Palestine protesters, antifa-affiliated individuals, and 'others who are promiscuously labeled ‘domestic terrorists.' "
“ 'I can reveal for the first time,' he wrote, 'that some of the secret lists and applications go by codenames like Bluekey, Grapevine, Hummingbird, Reaper, Sandcastle, Sienna, Slipstream, and Sparta (including the ominous sounding HEL-A and HEL-C reports generated by Sparta).' "
“ 'Some of these, like Hummingbird, were created to vet and track immigrants, in this case Afghans seeking to settle in the United States,' Klippenstein explained. 'Slipstream is a classified social media repository. Others are tools used to link people on the streets together, including collecting on friends and families who have nothing to do with any purported lawbreaking.' "
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