“A senior Department of Homeland Security official whose office compiled ‘intelligence reports’ about journalists and protesters in Portland, Ore., has been removed from his job, according to three people familiar with the matter” reports the Washington Post.
Brian Murphy, the acting undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, was reassigned to a new position elsewhere in the department, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter. Murphy’s removal follows revelations in The Washington Post that the Intelligence & Analysis Office (I & A) at DHS compiled Open Source Intelligence Reports about the work of two journalists who had published leaked department documents. In a separate intelligence report, the office also analyzed the communications of protesters in Portland.