HSRP-648

Senate investigators found intelligence reporting that swept in lawful activity

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-648
Category: Suppression
Grade: WORKING
Status: ACTIVE
Entry form: Full
First entered: 2026-10-18
Last revised: Not recorded
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-648

2. The claim, in full

Senate investigators found intelligence reporting that swept in lawful activity

Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC35 (brief item H35). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED (as applied to this label: WORKING)". "sovereign citizen" does not appear in the pages read (pp. i–29); the bearing on this label is by analogy only (WORKING). Body examples (motorcycle leaflets; book list) known only via EFF and NBC (secondary).

3. What it rests on

PSI, Executive Summary: "the fusion centers often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting to DHS" [SRC-1178]

Sources: SRC-1178
PSI, p. 29: "to associate, worship, speak, and protest without being spied on by their own government." [SRC-1178]

Sources: SRC-1178

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

SRC-1178 · PRIORITY · Federal Support for and Involvement in State and Local Fusion Centers — U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (2012)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded

Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S62. CITATION as the block gives it (S62): U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Federal Support for and Involvement in State and Local Fusion Centers (majority and minority staff report, 3 October 2012), Executive Summary, p. 2. READ AT: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/10-3-2012%20PSI%20STAFF%20REPORT%20re%20FUSION%20CENTERS.2.pdf ; https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/2012_r/dhs-fusion-centers_hsgac-psi_20121003.htm SCOPE PAGE; PRIMARY. The executive summary (printed pp. 2–4) and the body to p. 29 were read. The body from p. 35 on, including p. 104 (MIAC), was not reached.

5. Counter-evidence

Internal review caught much of it: "In 2009, DHS instituted a lengthy privacy and civil liberties review process which kept most of the troubling reports from being released outside of DHS" [SRC-1178] (Executive Summary, p. 3)

Sources: SRC-1178

6. Why this grade

ESTABLISHED (as applied to this label: WORKING)

The register defines WORKING as: A hypothesis or projection consistent with the evidence so far, but not yet confirmable.

7. Correction history

No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.

8. Related observations

No related observations are linked in the register.

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

Sovereign Citizens
“Senate investigators found intelligence reporting that swept in lawful activity — ESTABLISHED (as applied to this label: WORKING)”

Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /sovereign-citizens.

10. Open questions

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11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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