Trainees check their cell phones and update their family members at the Solomon Center on Fort Jackson Dec. 18, 2017. (Fort Jackson Public Affairs Office/Robert Timmons)
The Intercept: Pentagon Plans to Monitor Social Media of Military Personnel for Extremist Content
The military has previously balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment
As part of the Biden administration’s crackdown on domestic extremism, the Pentagon plans to launch a pilot program for screening social media content for extremist material, according to internal Defense Department documents reviewed by The Intercept, as well as a source with direct knowledge of the program.
An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously” monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon briefing in late March. Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official. Though the firm has not yet been selected, the current front runner is Babel Street, a company that sells powerful surveillance tools including social media monitoring software.
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Update: Pentagon launches program to surveil military personnel’s social media
WNU Editor: The U.S. Defense Secretary issued the orders 6 weeks ago .... Austin Orders Immediate Changes to Combat Extremism in Military (US Department of Defense), even though some top officers have a different point of view .... Top officers believe they have 'zero' extremists in their forces (The Hill).
And as for the person who is in charge of this social media screening program. He has a history of saying that all Trump supporters are racist and extremists .... Meet Bishop Garrison, the Pentagon’s 'newly minted MAGA purge man' (FOX News).
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If there are extremists, this will just push them underground. What is obvious is that anyone that is not a leftist will be pushed out. The next thing will be scrubbing political contributions, and tracking locations on phones and fitness monitors to see where people go, and who they meet with.
All done by a contractor, so privacy rights don't come in to play, of course.
Screening them is fine
What's not "fine" is basically calling all white people racists and extremists. This WILL backfire
above is the dope the services certainly do not need. there is a min IQ ad he does not come close
troll bogey at 3 o'clock
A militant Donald Trump supporter whose photo is featured on an FBI wanted list because he was caught on video battling with police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 attended a political event last week for a Trump-loving Pennsylvania politician who backed the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The event’s headliner: Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who called for “trial by combat” during his speech on Jan. 6 and whose phones and computers were seized in a Justice Department investigation last month.
Samuel Lazar, who is Capitol suspect No. 275 on the FBI website, posed for photos alongside right-wing Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) at the May 15 event headlined by Giuliani. A tipster sent the photos to HuffPost after spotting them on Facebook.
Both Mastriano and Lazar were at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, though Mastriano claimed he left when he realized the protest was no longer peaceful. Mastriano, whose campaign spent thousands of dollars on buses to bring people to D.C. on Jan. 6, later issued a statement saying those who violated the law must be prosecuted. Mastriano’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
when you do not like a comment, you assume called the person troll points out something truly to note. Nope. It merely shows you are unable to view a position contrary to yours.
Thanks for coming to my defence Haha
I stand by my comment. Too many white men, especially straight white men are being targeted under false pretext.
History will prove me right.. but currently the trolls, like the 301, just do the bidding of the media that propagates hatred and division. The weak minded always do. Don't hate him. Pray for him.
Lmfao having a moderate army! no wonder the US hasn't won a single war without its allies doing all the heavy lifting.
I can hear the CCP: "That's the way you do it! You're catching on, now it's just a fews moves until total control. Look at us--it works!"
yo misfit
a troll is someone who does not agree with your sick fucking view of things. No. Intelligent folks do not always agree with you but in fact scorn people like you
But he doesn’t have the final say. And signs suggest the idea might still be viable — particularly when it comes to getting the 60 votes necessary in the Senate.
After the top Democrat and Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee on Monday announced the agreement to form the commission, McCarthy released a statement Tuesday saying that any commission should also investigate other acts of violence near the Capitol and against members of Congress.
“The renewed focus by Democrats to now stand up an additional commission ignores the political violence that has struck American cities, a Republican Congressional baseball practice, and, most recently, the deadly attack on Capitol Police on April 2, 2021,” McCarthy said. “The presence of this political violence in American society cannot be tolerated and it cannot be overlooked.”
Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) followed that up with a letter to GOP colleagues recommending a “no” vote. But Democrats don’t need GOP votes to pass a bill in the House — and given that the bill is co-sponsored by the ranking Republican on a House committee, it seems likely to get at least a handful of GOP votes anyway.
Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on May 18 said that the Senate would vote on a bill to form a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. (The Washington Post)
The Senate has so far been the chamber to stymie Democratic-sponsored bills. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had been critical of early proposals for a commission, saying that they were too partisan and that both parties should have equal authority to subpoena witnesses and documents. (The new agreement requires both the Democratic-appointed chair of the commission and the Republican-appointed vice chair to agree on subpoenas).
And the professor comes in with a another zinger. It is a copy and paste job lifted from a leftwing rag unfit to be used a bird cage liner.
Funny, but you would think a professor would be able to write and write well and not have to stoop to plagiarize. It is almost as if it does not have a mind.
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