Interesting …Only those covering the protests…How/Why does that work…As per
FKing usual
US Homeland Security Halts Spying on Reporters Covering Protests, Spokesman Says
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Homeland Security Chad Wolf ordered his agency’s intelligence directorate to immediately stop collecting information and publishing reports on reporters covering violent anti-government protests in the city of Portland, Spokesman Alexei Woltornist said in a press release on Friday.
"Upon learning about the practice, Acting Secretary Wolf directed the DHS Intelligence & Analysis Directorate to immediately discontinue collecting information involving members of the press. In no way does the Acting Secretary condone this practice and he has immediately ordered an inquiry into the matter," Woltornist said.
During the previous week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence unit disseminated three Open Source Intelligence Reports to federal law enforcement agencies and others, summarizing tweets written by two journalists — a reporter for the New York Times and the editor in chief of the blog Lawfare — and noting they had published leaked, albeit unclassified documents about DHS operations in Portland, the Washington Post reported.
The Post cited a memo by the top DHS intelligence official, which was tweeted by the editor of Lawfare. The memo personnel relied on "FINTEL," [financial intelligence], as well as finished intelligence "Baseball cards" of arrested protesters to try to understand their motivations and plans.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202007311080028603-us-homeland-security-halts-spying-on-reporters-covering-protests-spokesman-says/