A deportation officer with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a retired DHS law enforcement agent were among five people indicted on July 6, in a widening federal investigation over an alleged scheme to hunt down Chinese dissidents in the United States.
Craig Miller, who is currently assigned to DHS’s Emergency Relief Operations in Minneapolis, and former DHS agent Derrick Taylor, who is presently employed as a private investigator in Irvine, California, were accused of obtaining and disseminating “sensitive and confidential information from a restricted federal law enforcement database,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on July 8.
“This case exposes attempts by the government of the PRC [People’s Republic of China] to suppress dissenting voices within the United States,” Assistant Director Alan Kohler Jr. of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division said in a statement….