From the article: > other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound

From the article: > other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down. This is a chilling line, and yet so predictable. If DHS’s original mandate has wound down, I consider that an occasion to scale back DHS. But no, government bureaucracies (especially ones with immense, unchecked power) don’t just shrink away when they are no longer needed. They keep growing.