Obama administration downplayed DHS' Antifa warnings, focused on alt-right

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Not cool. This is exactly the type of political cherry picking the Canadian police and politicians engage in. There are massive risks in not addressing real threats, chasing rabbits or creating false optics for political purposes.

Consider what I bolded below and the attacks of 9/11. This is the type of risk a nation faces when they have tunnel vision. Many on the right in Canada are viewed through these lenses, and a great of it is dishonest and/or unreliable.

FBI, DHS warned of increasingly violent Antifa clashes in 2016, documents show


In previously unreported documents dating back to April 2016 and viewed by Fox News, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security wrote that “anarchist extremists” and Antifa groups were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies. They blamed these groups for attacks on police, government and political institutions, racists, fascists and “symbols of capitalism.”

The agencies warned the rise of fascist, nationalist, racist or anti-immigrant groups in U.S. political discourse could lead to violent backlash from these “anarchist extremists.”

The FBI and DHS had no comment on the assessments, saying they were not intended to be made public.

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In recent decades, authorities have focused almost exclusively on right-wing groups as the most likely instigators of domestic terrorist violence, especially after Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, killing 168 people.

But groups such as Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, have been growing in numbers and becoming more tolerant about using violence.

Apparently this was not the limit of their dishonesty. Deep State Crooks and Thieves.

Former Obama Admin Acting DHS Inspector General Indicted on Theft, Fraud Charges.

Indicted for Theft and Fraud​

The Department of Justice announced the charges against Charles K. Edwards and 54-year-old Virginia resident Murali Yamazula Venkata on Friday. The defendants are each accused of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit theft of government property, conspiracy to defraud the United States, aggravated identity theft, and theft of government property. Venkata is additionally accused of destroying records.

DOJ press release:

From October 2014 to April 2017, Edwards, Venkata, and others executed a scheme to defraud the U.S. government by stealing confidential and proprietary software from DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), along with sensitive government databases containing personal identifying information (PII) of DHS and USPS employees, so that Edwards’s company, Delta Business Solutions, could later sell an enhanced version of DHS-OIG’s software to the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Agriculture at a profit. Although Edwards had left DHS-OIG in December 2013, he continued to leverage his relationship with Venkata and other DHS-OIG employees to steal the software and the sensitive government databases.

In addition to stealing DHS-OIG’s software and the sensitive government databases, Venkata and others also assisted Edwards by reconfiguring his laptop so that he could properly upload the stolen software and databases, provided troubleshooting support whenever Edwards required it, and helped him build a testing server at his residence with the stolen software and databases, which contained PII. As further part of the
scheme, Edwards retained software developers in India for the purpose of developing his commercial alternative of DHS-OIG’s software.

After 3 years of criminal activity Edwards resigned.