"The Trump administration is requesting Congress double a homeland security fund to pay off confidential informants, according to the detailed budget documents released Friday. It is the first time in a decade that the fund has been increased.
The move is part of a broader push pitting traditional against cutting edge methods to prevent attacks before they happen, a goal enjoying newfound urgency following the Molotov cocktail attack on pro-Israel marchers in Boulder, Colorado yesterday.
“It is a whole new host of threat vectors you have to go after,” said Paul Mauro, the former chief of the NYPD’s intelligence arm, responding to the Boulder attack. Not very long ago, Mauro told Fox News, the nation’s domestic intelligence fighters were worried about “Al Qaeda having a sleeper cell here and ISIS weaponizing people over the internet.”
Now, Mauro continued, “the incubators are on campuses and in high schools and online” — in other words, everywhere.
Preventing an attack before it occurs is a paradigm born out of 9/11. The idea was that a combination of police and intelligence work can be applied to stop plotters from committing crimes in the first place. This is the holy grail of domestic homeland security. But it hasn’t been particularly successful, with politically-motivated assassinations and related acts of violence on the rise."
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-securitys-pre-crime-push
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