The Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, is using a newly-established "working group" to come up with a new definition for extremism, which one journalist warns is a way to weed out political dissenters within the ranks and control what soldiers can think.
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3 Jun 2021
The Biden administration’s $715 billion Pentagon budget for fiscal year 2022 proposes spending about $30 million, on top of spending $9.1 million this fiscal year, on efforts to combat “extremism” in the military.
The Pentagon’s summary of the budget, released Friday, attributed “recent events” for the spending:
While we believe the vast majority of those who serve in the military and the civilian workforce that supports them do so with honor, dignity and respect, recent events have taught us that we must be ever vigilant in our efforts to identify and combat extremist behavior within our ranks.
The budget proposes $30.8 million to “strengthen [Department of Defense] tools to identify and address extremism, enhance training at all levels of the force, and update existing Department policies to include the development of a punitive regulation on extremist activities.”
18 May 2021
The Biden Pentagon’s new Counter Extremism Working Group (CEWG) is planning to surveil members of the military’s social media accounts for “extremism” using a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a recent report.
Babel Street is currently the frontrunner for private surveillance firms the Pentagon is considering, the Intercept reported Tuesday.
The firm buys bulk cellular location data and sells it to federal government agencies, including the Secret Service, to bypass surveillance warrant requirements, according to the report.
The Pentagon announced in April it would look into screening service members and recruits’ social media accounts, as Breitbart News has reported.