How the Trump Admin. Is Expanding the Definition of ‘Terrorism’ — and What It Means (w/ Dan Boguslaw) | TCHR

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In communities throughout the United States, the infrastructure required to surveil and track anyone is rapidly being constructed, from Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) systems to fusion centers to the hyperscale data centers used to store the vast amount of information being gleaned from consumer products and surveillance devices. As the public becomes more aware of the hazards of this infrastructure and the extent that the state is intruding into their lives, a broad, organic national grassroots movement has formed and has already won significant victories, which frightens the political elites and their corporate benefactors. For this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, investigative journalist Daniel Boguslaw joins Hedges to discuss what he has discovered by poring through unpublished reports from entities such as the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and Fusion Centers. Boguslaw reveals the inner workings of a post-9/11 growing national security complex that requires the manufacturing of new threat categories under the guise of ‘terrorism’ to nourish and sustain itself. He explains that prior to 9/11, “the FBI and the national security apparatus was already on high al