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U.S. Commerce Dept will scrap security unit

September 3, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 3, 2021

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it will disband a security unit following an internal review that raised questions about its counterintelligence activities.

Republican Senator Roger Wicker in July raised alarms about the Commerce Department’s Investigations and Threat Management Service (ITMS), saying it often lacked sufficient basis to open investigations. The department said on Friday it will make clear it does not possess the authority to conduct counterintelligence activities.

Wicker’s report in July said ITMS became “a rogue,

unaccountable police force across multiple presidential administrations.”

ITMS seized “work phones and computers to perform digital content searches, and picked the locks of offices and personal storage containers.”

The Commerce Department said on Friday it had taken personnel actions in connection with findings of misconduct regarding ITMS but said it could not legally disclose them.

Deputy Secretary Don Graves in a statement said the department immediately suspended all criminal enforcement activity after concerns were raised “and initiated a 90-day review to determine a comprehensive solution that would address these issues.”

The Commerce report issued on Friday faulted ITMS searches of employee emails and said agents raised concerns “their supervisors would review their own emails for inappropriate purposes.”

ITMS searched “servers and monitored employee email accounts to scan for evidence of foreign influence as early as 2014,” seeking to uncover connections between Department employees and actors within the Chinese government, Wicker’s report said.

Wicker’s report added that in early 2020, ITMS began “surveilling social media activity to monitor accounts that posted commentary critical of processes used to conduct the U.S. Census as well.” The U.S. Census is under the Commerce Department.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Mark Porter)

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