(Just The News) The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced the creation of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group and named a litany of ex-Obama intelligence officials, some of whom have been linked to the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
The panel will include “private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s I&A and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator.”
“The security of the American people depends on our capacity to collect, generate, and disseminate actionable intelligence to our federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, campus, and private sector partners,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.
Most of the inaugural appointees have backgrounds in intelligence or law enforcement. Two of the most prominent names, however, stood at the top of an intelligence apparatus that has attracted considerable scrutiny in recent years.
Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have both come under scrutiny as proponents of the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
