…Most of the #intelligence community, including the #CIA & the #NSA, agreed w/that assessment.

Only one agency, the #FBI [#KashPatel], partly dissented. It maintained the gang has a connection to the admin of #Venezuela’s #authoritarian president, Nicolás #Maduro, based on information the other agencies did not find credible.

Some ofcls involved in the working groups said they are concerned that the #Trump admin is de-prioritizing the issue despite #intelligence warnings. The change follows the unwinding of other #Russia-focused projects launched by #Biden’s admin.

The #FBI last month ended an effort to counter US #ElectionInterference by foreign adversaries including Russia & put on leave staff working on the issue at #DHS. The #DOJ also disbanded a team that seized the assets of #RussianOligarchs.

Regular meetings between the NSC & #Europe’s #NationalSecurity ofcls have gone unscheduled, & the NSC has also stopped formally coordinating efforts across #US agencies, including w/the #FBI, #DHS & the #State Dept….

Reuters could not determine whether #Trump has ordered the admin to halt all its work monitoring & combatting #Russia’s campaign….

Acc/to another informed source of #AFP, "hate & conspiracy messages" were blamed on the French researcher by #US authorities. An #FBI investigation into him was announced, for which "the charges have been abandoned," continues this source.

…This incident comes as… #Trump has increased his shocking announcements targeting the #scientific community (brutal #BudgetCuts, #censorship of certain subjects in subsidized research...).

@ErikJonker

#MakeElonPoorAgain #Technology #Automotive

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...#FederalOffense. 5 cars were damaged, 2 were burnt:

https://www.youtube.com/live/JIJTczgHfY0

Furthermore, there was a similar incident in #KansasCity and elsewhere in the country. It is still unclear if the incidents are unclear. The #FBI investigates.

On top of this, there are still the many problems I posted about in August 2023:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110816132924398423

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This now banned dragnet surveillance tactic was used to great effect in Seattle for the most petty of reasons.... there was a protest at the Police Union building.

Little to no property damage or other harm was reported (other than the cops beating ppl of course) none the less the fucking FBI built a case entirely on dragnet phone spying tools fit for a Tom Clancy novel.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack

On Friday, several #DOGE employees arrived at the #UnitedStates Institute of #Peace [#USIP], accompanied by 2 #FBI agents, according to Gonzo Gallegos, the institute's communications director. They left after a brief discussion about the institute's status.

The institute is not part of the federal #ExecutiveBranch, but is instead an #independent, #nonprofit agency that was established by #Congress in 1984.

Update. It's not enough for #Trump to …

* nominate #climate denialists to run key agencies like the #EPA and #NOAA
* remove climate-related words from govt web sites
* take down whole climate science sites and datasets
* defund climate research and researchers
* layoff scientists and civil servants with climate expertise
* repeal climate regulations
* eliminate 10 regional EPA offices, including the one in DC
* and plan to replace consensus climate findings with ideological cherrypicking as the foundation for policymaking …

… now his #FBI is freezing the assets of nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity, which have received EPA grants, alleging that they might be guilty of “possible criminal violations” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations