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      New Jersey fusion center.

      What Business Do Former CIA Agents Have in Domestic Law Enforcement?

      Behind all the law enforcement mumbo-jumbo is a commitment to racist broken-windows policing.

      Colin Kalmbacher
      Iman Boukadoum
      Daanish Faruqi
      Mar 24, 2023

      This exercise of fitting a square into a circular peg is precisely what now guides New Jersey’s contemporary policing regime. The Regional Operations Intelligence Center (ROIC), the only Department of Homeland Security-affiliated fusion center within the Garden State is led by a former CIA agent trained in international espionage, not state and municipal law enforcement tactics that must adhere to constitutional rights. As New Jersey's experience makes clear, the way fusion centers operate render them rife for abuse, and offer outdated models of policing.

      The Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights’ (CSRR) recent report Shining a Light on New Jersey’s Secret Intelligence System shows how the ROIC wastes limited state resources doubling down on “broken windows policing” – a method consistently rebuked by legal and criminal justice scholars as a tool of mass incarceration. Broken windows models emphasize aggressive enforcement of misdemeanor and non-violent “quality of life” offenses. ROIC intelligence gathering focuses on these methods, as the example of the City of Camden attests. There, ROIC intelligence has given rise to open season on privacy and petty offenses, with police issuing fines for offenses like riding a bicycle without a bell. Invariably, such tactics overwhelmingly target minority communities. Rather than fight terrorism, ROIC intelligence furthers the overreach of the carceral state with little benefit.

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      Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller,

      The GOP's "Weaponization" Subcommittee Leads to…. Kash Patel!

      In his meteoric rise to the upper echelon of Trump advisers, here's the man who has been the Forrest Gump of Trump's biggest scandals.

      Steven Harper
      Mar 08, 2023

      Worse than a bust, it's a boomerang.

      As part of the deal to become Speaker of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) promised far-right extremists a new committee to investigate the "weaponization" of the federal government. Its first chairperson, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), claims that "dozens" of "whistleblowers" have come forward with evidence that the Department of Justice—including the FBI—has been targeting conservatives.

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      Gas leaks from the Nord Stream gas pipeline system

      Seymour Hersh Report Alleges US Was Behind Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

      The Biden White House adamantly denied the veteran investigative journalist's reporting, calling it "complete fiction."

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 08, 2023

      Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a story Wednesday alleging that the United States was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline system last year, citing a single unnamed source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning."

      According to Hersh, who published the story on his new Substack, the September attack on the Russia-to-Germany gas pipelines was carried out by the U.S. Navy "under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22" and with the help of the Norwegian navy and secret service.

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