When Donald Trump was trying to get his Muslim ban 2.0 to pass muster in the courts early in his administration, he tasked the departments of Homeland Security and Justice to produce a report about terrorist activity committed by immigrants. That report so grossly inflated the link between foreign nationals and terrorism that watchdog groups sued the Trump administration for violating a law that prohibits federal agencies from spreading blatant disinformation.
Now Mother Jones has uncovered a key reason that the report was so bogus: It was partially written by Frank Wuco, an Islamophobic conspiracy theorist who had "a habit of role-playing as a jihadist."...
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/12/6/1903989/-Islamophobe-helped-write-Trump-s-bogus-Homeland-Security-report-linking-immigration-to-terror

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