Agents Instructed To ‘Misrepresent Themselves’

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Democrats released another damning whistleblower disclosure this week. This one alleges some disturbing, and potentially illegal, activity from the Department of Homeland Security’s ongoing effort to access state voter rolls as part of the Trump administration’s relentless campaign to unearth proof of President Trump’s conspiracy theories about noncitizens voters.

On Monday, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) released an anonymous 30-page whistleblower disclosure on some “serious allegations of illegal and inappropriate activities” concerning DHS’s effort to find alleged instances of noncitizens on state voter rolls, they said.

The document details a DHS effort, that was surfaced by the New York Times last month, known as the Unlawful Voter Initiative, in which DHS enlists U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agents to access sensitive voter information from internal and external sources. They then use that data to search public facing state voter databases, according to the Times. The ways in which DHS has directed agents to use the information to access state voter rolls may be in violation of some state laws, including instructing agents to “to misrepresent themselves” in order to access this data, Schumer and Padilla said.

The whistleblower document notes that agents, in some cases, effectively posed as the voters or someone authorized by the voter to...

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