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press that once Murphy was removed in July 2020 he was replaced by an inexperienced partisan employee, Joseph Maher. Maher shut-down all of the organizations ability to detect domestic terrorism threats. The reports suggest this led to the intelligence failures at DHS to identify violent online rhetoric in the lead up to the
January 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Maher was reported by the New York Times to have potentially retaliated against Murphy after Murphy filed his Whistleblower complaint. According to a DHS intelligence document produced under the Freedom of Information Act, shortly after Wolf removed Murphy, Maher restricted the ability of DHS to collect pertinent intelligence about Russian interference and White Supremacy.
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halted the release pending review by secretary Wolf. The bulletin stated that analysts had âhigh confidenceâ of the
Russian efforts, which were similar to efforts by Trump and his campaign to depict Biden as mentally unfit. A DHS spokesperson said the bulletin was âdelayedâ because it did not meet the departmentâs standards. The bulletin had not been released as of the date of the ABC News report. Murphy asserted in his complaint that Wolf told him âthe intelligence notification should be âheldâ because it âmade the President look bad.ââ Murphy alleged that
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50:. He is currently a doctoral student at Georgetown University. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1994 to 1998 as an infantry officer. Murphy began his FBI career in 1998 and worked there for 20 years, culminating in a position responsible for the FBIâs national level counterterrorism programs. As a junior special agent assigned to the FBI's New York Field Office his work in counterterrorism were noted in an Esquire article called
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from being investigated. The article indicates the whistleblower allegations related to Russia and White
Supremacy were among the causes for the improper intervention. Both articles state if Murphy had not been wrongfully removed in September 2020 there is evidence DHS would have been in a position
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and 'anarchist' groupsâ and to downplay the threat posed by white supremacists. Murphy stated he declined to comply. Murphy also claimed Wolf told him to "cease providing intelligence assessments on the threat of
Russian interference in the US, and instead start reporting on interference activities
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Russian interference was articulated in the March 2021 Office of Director of National
528:"D.H.S. Downplayed Threats From Russia and White Supremacists, Whistle-Blower Says: Brian Murphy, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence division, accused senior leaders of warping the agency around President Trump's political interests"
242:"D.H.S. Downplayed Threats From Russia and White Supremacists, Whistle-Blower Says: Brian Murphy, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence division, accused senior leaders of warping the agency around President Trump's political interests"
1211:"Aide to Capitol Riot Inquiry Is Accused of Whistle-Blower Retaliation: For the second time, a senior member of the staff of the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack has been accused of retaliating against a whistle-blower in the Trump government"
216:"Homeland Security Reassigns Official Whose Office Compiled Intelligence on Journalists: Brian Murphy's office compiled reports of protesters and journalists who were covering the Trump administration's response to unrest in Portland, Ore., last month"
1049:"Homeland Security Watchdog Delayed Inquiry, Complaint Says: The department's inspector general delayed looking into a retaliation complaint by a former intelligence chief until after the 2020 election, according to officials and a whistle-blower"
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854:"BlueLeaks Documents Bolster Whistleblower Account of Intelligence Tampering at Homeland Security: The Department of Homeland Security has become an armed extension of Trumpism"
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967:"Months ahead of Capitol riot, DHS threat assessment group was gutted: Officials. The Homeland Security intelligence branch faced scrutiny over the summer"
821:"The activists who say they posted BlueLeaks tell the inside story of how the massive trove of police documents revealed how cops were tracking protesters"
286:"Brian Murphy V. The Bad Guys: How the FBI and one extraordinary agent pursued and won a terrorism case without changing the standards of American justice"
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