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Something for an old friend

According to The Guardian newspaper, Lauren Regan, a civil rights attorney who has actively provided legal support for protesters, said that three individuals, including a Native American, have been approached by JTTF officers. In each case, the officer came without a subpoena, but instead with a request for a voluntary interview, Regan added.

All three individuals were contacted in the weeks following US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the newspaper added.

While the motive behind the investigations is not known, the attorney regarded the approaches as "outrageous," "unwarranted," and "unconstitutional," noting that the mere implication of non-violent demonstrates in a domestic terrorism investigation was "unfathomable," The Guardian reported.

Since April 2016, hundreds of peaceful demonstrators have gathered at the site in solidarity with the Standing Rock tribe to protest the completion of the pipeline.

San Francisco Withdraws for Fed Anti-Terror Network

San Francisco’s new police Chief has withdrawn his police force from the Federal Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) Program that works cooperatively with local law enforcement to prevent terrorist attacks on US soil. They reportedly left because the Memorandum of Understanding is now 10 years old and must be reviewed (it was signed in 2007). However, there may be more to it than a “review”-…

Oregon News: U.S. Attorney Statement on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)

Oregon – The decision to withdraw the PortlandPolice Bureau from the Joint Terrorism Task Force is a mistake that defies logic. It’s disappointing that in spite of the overwhelming evidence presented of JTTF successes in Oregon and across the nation, a majority of the city council chose a politically-expedient broadside against the federal government over the safety and well-being of their…