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FILE PHOTO: Portland Police officers face off with a protester after using CS gas and less lethal munitions to disperse demonstrators after a molotov cocktail was thrown on the 100th consecutive night of protests in Portland, Oregon, U.S. September 5, 2020. Picture taken September 5, 2020. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs/
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide more details on how its intelligence office responded to anti-racism protests in Portland, Oregon last summer.
The committee’s Democrats said in a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, obtained by Reuters, that an internal report issued in January by DHS’s legal office identified “significant problems within the intelligence arm of DHS and its involvement in responding to protests in Portland, OR in June and July of last year.”