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Lefties at The Nation discover that (non-FBI) feds have been tracing the puppet masters behind Antifa and BLM<\/a><\/p>\n

Is an unexpected October Surprise on the way?<\/p>\n

They think it’s a\u00a0bad<\/em>\u00a0thing, but I give\u00a0The Nation\u00a0credit for reportorial digging.\u00a0\u00a0The hard-left magazine has discovered that federal law enforcement agencies (though\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0the FBI) have been tracing whom the mobs in Portland have been communicating with.\u00a0\u00a0The apparent lead role in utilizing hi tech and classified electronic means is being played by the Department of Homeland Security’s\u00a0Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), while the U.S. Marshals Service is dispatching street-level personnel.\u00a0\u00a0This bypasses the FBI, whose director,\u00a0Christopher Wray<\/a>,\u00a0is on the record in sworn testimony, dismissing any such superstructure:<\/p>\n

“It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology,” he said, explaining that “folks who subscribe or identify” with antifa do not operate at a national level, but instead organize “regionally into small groups or nodes.”<\/p>\n

The Nation\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n

A current DHS official described a colleague with expertise in electronic surveillance who was being deployed to Portland. But for what purpose? “Extracting information from protester’s phones,” the DHS official said. While in Portland, an interagency task force involving DHS and the Justice Department used a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack \u2014 the details of which remain classified \u2014 to intercept protesters’ phone communications, according to two former intelligence officers familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Cell phone cloning involves stealing a phone’s unique identifiers and copying them to another device in order to intercept the communications received by the original device. The former intelligence officials described it as part of a “Low Level Voice Intercept” operation, declining to go into further detail \u2014 one of them citing the sensitive nature of the surveillance tool and the other an ongoing leak investigation within I&A.<\/p>\n

“You’re getting an inside view into your targets, who they are, who they’re talking to \u2014 the hierarchy,” the former intelligence officer said, explaining that many within the DHS believe that antifa is an organized group \u2014 as opposed to the largely spontaneous, decentralized ideological tendency that most experts, including Trump’s own\u00a0FBI director<\/a>, believe it is. DHS intelligence has even found some limited evidence, which he considered thin, of foreign sponsorship. Attorney General William Barr, however,\u00a0recently claimed<\/a>\u00a0that antifa is receiving foreign sponsorship \u2014 a necessary criterion to formally designating it a terror organization, which President Trump vowed to do in July. (The Nation\u00a0recently reported<\/a>\u00a0on DHS intelligence’s attempts to tie antifa to Kurdish militant groups in Syria.)<\/p>\n

“Signals intelligence collection would not be useful for preventing opportunistic looting or violent confrontations. It presumes the existence of coordinated, purposeful, and unlawful activity that is conducted through electronic means,” said Steven Aftergood, who heads the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. “The general concern is that DHS treated mass public protests \u2014 not just violent individuals \u2014 as suspicious and targets of investigation, or worse.” (snip)<\/p>\n

In addition to signals intelligence collection, the Portland operation involved clandestine aspects, according to the former intelligence officer. This appears consistent with a tip received this summer. Several members of the US Marshals Service (USMS) \u2014 part of the Justice Department \u2014 sent to Portland claimed to be affiliated with a private firm called “Strategic Oil,” according to travel records obtained by\u00a0The Nation. While they did not identify themselves as law enforcement, the travel records contain information indicating that they were marshals, including that they were given a special discount for federal government employees. Clandestine methods tend to be used only for the most sensitive operations, more commonly overseas than domestically. (The Justice Department did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

News Thud<\/a>, from which I learned of The Nation’s reporting, suspects that an October Surprise is on the way.<\/p>\n

So the DHS and the FBI have been listening to Antifa and they know who in the media and in politics they have been talking to. You can tell by reading the report from The Nation, the left is getting real nervous about this because it is the number one report on their website as of the writing of this post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last May, Posobiec (of OAN) warned that media ties to Antifa would be exposed:<\/p>\n

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I warned them this would happen when Barr activated the JTTFs but oh well <\/p>\n

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes <\/p>\n

Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters\u2019 Phones in Portland https:\/\/t.co\/muMOWqYf3q<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) September 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n