I will have more to say about this story after considering my legal options. For now, a few points... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-compiled-intelligence-reports-on-journalists-who-published-leaked-documents/2020/07/30/5be5ec9e-d25b-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

(1) It does not trouble me that DHS officials shared my tweets internally. That is certainly appropriate given that the tweets contained disclosures of information from DHS I&A. The contents of these intelligence reports are innocuous enough.

(2) What is troubling about this story is that I&A shared my tweets *as intelligence reporting,* that is, an intelligence arm of the government filed a report on a citizen for activity at the heart of journalism: revealing newsworthy information about government to the public.

(3) DHS is permitted to collect and analyze intelligence pursuant to homeland security missions. I am not sure how my reporting of unclassified material constitutes any kind of homeland security threat that justifies the dissemination of intelligence reporting on a US person, ...

particularly not one exercising core First Amendment rights and nothing more. I intend to find out.

(4) I am also not sure I understand the parameters of DHS’s authority to collect and report on people like me. If this activity is okay, is it okay to build a full dossier of public record information on a journalist?

Is it okay to buy a lot of information from a data broker and report it to senior policy makers? I intend to find out the answer to these questions too.

Stay tuned.