White House blocks intelligence report warning of rising US homeland terror threat linked to Iran war | Daily Mail Online
By: Shawn Cohen (Mail Online)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Donald Trump's White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The FBI, Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center were preparing to put out a joint intelligence statement on Friday to state and local authorities alerting them of a heightened threat due to the ongoing war in Iran, a senior DHS official said.
The bulletin, which was reviewed by the Daily Mail, details 'elevated threats by the government of Iran to US military and government personnel and facilities, Jewish and Israeli institutions and their perceived supporters, and Iranian dissidents and other anti-regime activists in the United States.'
'Radicalized individuals with a variety of ideological backgrounds also may see this conflict or other geopolitical events as a justification for violence,' the report continues.
The five-page bulletin blocked by the White House provides specific details on how Iranian proxies may carry out attacks across the country. One section explains how local law enforcement can respond to this type of violence.
The official title is 'A Public Safety Awareness Report: Elevated threat in the United States during US-Iran conflict'.
Homeland Security broke protocol and gave the White House a heads-up about the nationwide bulletin hours before it was set to be released.
Top Trump officials ordered it placed on 'hold'. The White House did not deny blocking the terror bulletin in a statement to the Daily Mail.
'The White House is coordinating closely with all government agencies to ensure information being disseminated is accurate, up to date, and has been properly vetted — even if that means taking additional time to review to ensure nothing is done in a vacuum,' said White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson.
The senior DHS official disputed the White House explanation: 'The three [agencies] were going to release a joint intelligence statement that would elevate the threat level and start addressing the Iranian threat on American soil.'
'The White House stopped it, and verbalized down to DHS that any unclassified "for official use only" information going forward concerning Iran has to be reviewed by the White House before any dissemination.'
DHS's decision to inform the White House was done against the wishes of the FBI leadership, the Daily Mail has learned.
'White House is now inserting themselves. This can have a chilling effect on keeping state and local law enforcement informed about ongoing terrorist threats to the homeland posed by Iran,' the official added.
'They don't want anything getting out that says what they're doing in Iran is raising the threat level at home.'
Typically, these intel bulletins would be issued to law enforcement without input from the White House to avoid politicizing intelligence communications.
'Intelligence products for law enforcement are supposed to be neutral, and fact based,' the official asserted.
The Daily Mail contacted the FBI, and DHS for comment.
The counterterrorism center, which is run by Joe Kent, falls under the jurisdiction of the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Homeland Security's decision to provide the White House notice about the increased terror threat comes one day after Secretary Kristi Noem's firing from the department. She is due to officially step down from her role at the end of the month.
Trump launched 'Operation Epic Fury' one week ago in a joint military operation with Israel against Iran that killed the regime's senior leadership, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The war has since spiraled across the Middle East, with Iran launching retaliatory strikes against US military bases and allied Gulf nations.
Six American troops have been killed and more than a dozen others injured in an Iranian drone attack. Trump previously warned that US troops could lose their lives, adding that 'we may have casualties.'
Iran uses a network of proxy Islamic militant groups around the globe to carry out violent attacks against Western countries, including Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Days after Trump launched his war against Tehran, a gunman opened fire at a bar in Austin, Texas, killing three people and wounding 15 others before police shot him dead. Investigators later discovered that the shooter had expressed support for the Iranian regime online before opening fire.
Trump was reportedly warned by his top military advisers that Iran could respond to strikes with terror attacks with proxies on US soil.
Last week, FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams were placed on elevated alert across the country by Kash Patel.
At the time, the agency did not say how long the terror alert would remain in effect.
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The Trumpist regime is blocking an essential intelligence report warning because it might (would) make Trump look bad and potentially erode what little public support there is for Trump's war.
The Trumpist regime -- dedicated to making Americans less safe.
I'm watching the useless asshole shit thru his teeth at his presser right now ...
"walking around with no legs", "iranian/uranium", the epitome of maga morons ...
looks like some of his spray tan ended up in his hair ...
I spoke to one of my many cousins over the weekend and was informed a service member in our family was given some time to connect with immediate family. he prefaced his call by stating that he wouldn't disclose where he was calling from and he wouldn't be talking about what he was doing.
I'm watching now, too. His hair does look much more orange than usual. "Nobody's ever seen anything like it."
Morning...I will have to stop reading your comments when eating my veggie toast at brekkie..third time I have nearly choked this week laughing...
I had to check out Trump myself on Google..yep what has done to his hair? It looks really....feral...
Where ever your rellie is hope he stays safe..
I appreciate those in the WH press core that are asking the leading questions on topics that he's most likely to lie about ...
I think he was using some product to thicken what remains of his hair. Just makes it look like a months dead rodent died up there.
I hear Jacinda Ardern has moved to Australia. The Kiwis are comming, the Kiwis are comming ... run away, run away!
Trump just called his war "an excursion". Twice. It's like a day at Disneyland! Take the kids.
Trump also said he talked to Putin on the phone for an hour today, and now Trump says his war is wrapping up ("war is very complete"; will be over "very quickly"). The boss spoke and his boy Trump always obeys.
He’s always been Putin’s bitch. I’m sure Putin has a detailed plan for how to use America’s most useful idiot.
thanks mate. I know he's been getting lots of free flight miles this year.
an orange dag is still a dag, you reckon?
Morning Hully...yes speaks volumes her over here..
NZ is a basket case partly Arderns doing and they just walk away from it all and in her case migrate...
600,000 Kiwis live here already..they are losing tens of thousands a year across the ditch..
Saw this morning they are paying $4 a litre for petrol in NZ..ouch..
Have a friend works at Whangarei hospital last 4 weeks 3 of her friends have packed up and moved to Oz..
russia's broke and putin probably convinced trump to attack iran by telling the gullible moron they had the bomb, since russia's oil is the closest to europe and now it's worth twice as much ...
I'm starting to see snippets of news from my small group of friends on FB. a former work colleague hasn't heard from her navy son in over a week that's attached to a carrier group, and another friend of a friend whose daughter is an army nurse that just got shipped off to germany a week ago ...
I think that Trump may have succeeded in putting the Republicans between a rock and a hard place.
they deserve it, but that's nothing compared to what he's probably done to bibi and israel's hardliners ...
It was GWB who put them between Iraq and a hard place...
... another prime example of an unqualified republican moron in the oval office.
Games Without Borders or Gypsum Wall Board?
Recently Trump's poll numbers are not good. I wonder what he thinks he can accomplish by continuing the war?
(And little by little more Americans are getting killed)
IMO significant regime change is not possible at this time.
Perhaps he thinks that it will lead to the U.S, taking Iran's oil?
(This ain't gonna happen)
So.....somehow....we are the richest nation in the world and we can afford to go to war with Iran.....but we cannot afford healthcare? Weird how that works. Fuck trump.
Over the last few weeks his "Favorability" ratings have been going down. I wouldn't be surprised if the Democrats gain conrol of both houses of Congress in the midterms (which would limit his power considerably).
It has only cost us about $6 billion for the first week. No big deal.
I am so sick of this shit.....what a fucking mess.
Truly.
Well, to anyone with half a brain and some life experience will tell you that anytime you bomb another nation terroristic threats against the country with the bombs is going to escalate.
Times I remember the threat level escalating:
George HW Bush - Liberation of Kuwait
George Bush - Iraqi Freedom and all the other crazy "missions"
trmp - this "Iranian Freedom" nonsense
Somehow or other, this is putting America first.
first in line to catch a major terrorist attack ...
too bad mar-a-lardo isn't as secure as some people would like to believe ...
That was never trump's objective.....it was all too make money, and bury the fact that he is a pedophile. In this life or the next, he'll pay.
... so will his kids.
trumpski and kegseth have effectively put a lid on any of their negative war information from being released. I hadn't seen reports of any US wounded until today, but the information snippets I've gotten from other sources suggests otherwise. the few sane people left in the west wing are very concerned about any negative information contradicting trump's current war narratives from escaping, due to an intense fear of the reaction by the american public. it's impossible to keep the news about dead soldiers quiet, but the wounded are still able to be coerced and threatened.
oh look, speaking of which ...