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Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)

[security contractors joined by officers hailing from across the federal government] converged for a mission dubbed “Operation Diligent Valor,” authorized under Executive Order 13933, purportedly to apprehend “anarchists and left-wing extremists” who’d been driven by Floyd’s murder to target U.S. monuments commemorating slave owners and Confederate traitors — dangerous individuals, Trump said, advancing a “fringe ideology” painting the U.S. government as “fundamentally unjust.”

Irony is dead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That's just double speak at this point. We've always been at war with easteasia.

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