Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine formally asked the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to investigate and provide details on many of the surveillance technologies being used by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a copy of the letter shared with 404 Media.
The letter touches on many of the surveillance technologies and companies that 404 Media has been writing about in recent months, including Flock license plate readers, Penlink social media and location data monitoring, Clearview AI’s facial recognition tech, Paragon Solutions’ phone hacking technology, as well as other social media scanning and biometric collection databases used by DHS in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“We are deeply concerned that ICE’s surge in brutality against American communities is being facilitated by the inappropriate and unsupervised use of surveillance technology,” the senators wrote. “As such, we formally request an investigation by your office into the methods that DHS uses to collect, retain, analyze, and use data about the communities where it operates in conjunction with the companies mentioned above, and any companies DHS is seeking to conduct business with–for similar purposes—in the future.”
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Who fucking cares, we’re all on a list. The technical structure of the state cannot be chided or scolded. Fuck this finger wagging. These assholes in congress need to be pummeling the administration with Epstein file hearings.
We need to have a true prolonged general strike. We need to link arms in the street and push these assholes out of our communities.
Quote from the orange star of the Epstein cast -“The homegrowns are next.” So sure, all honest folks will be on the list while the criminals take over the country.
BUT Answers are NOT Mandatory for BILLIONS more in Taxpayer Dollars!
-Chuck Schumer!
Writing a letter to this fuckin’ guy is seriously their plan?
For four years, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, appointed by former President Donald Trump, has criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for lax immigration enforcement. Now, a confidential watchdog report delivered to the White House on Wednesday is accusing the inspector general of abuse of authority and substantial misconduct — and it suggests the president fire him.
A panel of other inspectors general from across the federal government, after investigating DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari for years, has concluded that Biden should discipline him “up to and including removal.”
The panel’s conclusion and its suggestion that Cuffari be fired were described to POLITICO by a person granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the report.
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