Biden DHS spent counterterrorism funds on anti-conservative ‘counterpropaganda’

Published January 18, 2024 10:01pm ET



While the Department of Homeland Security has allowed as many as 10 million immigrants to flood the southern border, the domestic surveillance state has prioritized something as a more important matter. According to documents unearthed by the Media Research Center, DHS paid $700,000 from a counterterrorism program to a self-described propaganda network to attack conservatives.

The source of the funding was the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, which was created under President Barack Obama to target al Qaeda, put on hold, and then clandestinely revived by then-acting DHS head Kevin McAleenan and Miles Taylor, the infamous and insufferable “Anonymous” resistance within the Trump administration, with funding that “circumvented” the White House budgeting process. The beneficiary of the grant under President Joe Biden is the (already taxpayer-funded) University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab.

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