> but they would only need a very weak link to some foreign agent to allow wide scale surveillance. Hell, a Canadian protester would fulfill the criteria. My i

> but they would only need a very weak link to some foreign agent to allow wide scale surveillance. Hell, a Canadian protester would fulfill the criteria. My impression is that this is exactly why DHS wrote the Intelligence Report "The Syrian Conflict and its Nexus to US-based Antifascist Movements": https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/471292844-The-Syrian-Conflict-and-Its-Nexus-to-U-S-based-Antifascist-Movements-5.pdf https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/471292844-The-Syrian-Con... The idea seems to be to gin up a facially plausible but totally spurious connection from Antifa to PKK via the YPG, to claim that YPG is a "foreign power" (ridiculous, but might be technically true under 50 U.S.C. § 1801(a)(5)), or that it's somehow the same organization as the PKK (false) in order to justify a counterintelligence investigation of protestors.