Exclusive: Customs and Border Protection Gains an Extra Layer of Secrecy
Source: the nation
By gaining a security agency designation, the border police can further shield themselves from public view.
Today 1:15 pm
Under President Trump, US immigration authorities have pushed for extraordinary privileges and increased secrecy from the public.
On Friday, the Trump administration quietly designated the entire Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, which polices US borders, as a Security Agency, according to an internal memo obtained by The Nation. This follows repeated attempts by federal immigration authorities to dramatically expand their reach in recent years.
The memo, which was signed by CBPs Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan and dated January 31, places CBP under the same designation as highly secretive intelligence and law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Secret Service. This grants CBP greater secrecy by exempting certain records from disclosure to the public.
The memo states: I am pleased to announce CBP has been designated as a Security Agency under Office of Personnel Managements (OPM) official Data Release Policy, effective immediately. Previously, only frontline law enforcement, investigative, or intelligence positions held this designation. This policy change now protects all CBP employee names from subsequent responses to Freedom of Information Act requests or other public disclosures for CGP employee data.
CBP did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Irvin McCullough, national security analyst with the Government Accountability Project, warned that the designation would result in less transparency for CBP.....
Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cbp-security-agency/
Every hour it gets worse. damn
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ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)We are now Germany in the 1930's. "Papers, please..."
EndlessWire
(6,506 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)riversedge
(70,183 posts)I imagine it will cover any information.
Neglecting children in their custody is top secret?
Refusing to give children a mattress to sleep on is somehow classified?
CBP has been given protection from FOIA requests by Trump
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Protect the children instead!
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bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)Ilsa
(61,692 posts)Imagine what he could do with eight.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)yep
Its unbearable, all these goons who answer to no one
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)concerned that Trump and his white supremacists might usher in a new Holocaust.
And yeah, this new move is right along those lines.
These people really ARE Nazis. Old school brownshirts, ready to hit the streets with their stahl helms and bash left wing heads. Blood in the gutters, glass in the gutters, piles of burning books, camps, cages, crematoria.
There is nothing good about Donald Trump.
NOTHING.
They_Live
(3,231 posts)burrowowl
(17,636 posts)Collimator
(1,639 posts)Trump has himself a little SS division. This is probably because he knows that the professionals at the FBI and CIA don't respect him and resist doing his bidding.