Mar. 6, 2023: The Ron DeSantis pre-campaign is here

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

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Our colleague Betsy Woodruff Swan has an eye-popping story up this morning on a previously unreported DHS domestic-intelligence program, “one of many revelations in a wide-ranging tranche of internal documents reviewed by POLITICO. “Those documents also reveal that a significant number of employees in DHS’s intelligence office have raised concerns that the work they are doing could be illegal. Under the domestic-intelligence program, officials are allowed to seek interviews with just about anyone in the United States. That includes people held in immigrant detention centers, local jails, and federal prison. And while plenty of Republicans are eager to send Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to Washington, many of them have forgotten that he’s been here before. This morning, Playbook co-author Rachael Bade and Playbook editor Mike DeBonis discuss Rachael and Playbook producer Bethany Irvine's deep dive on DeSantis’ low-profile House tenure, interviewing over a dozen of his former colleagues about his six years among the back benches. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Sponsored by Amazon.
0:02.0	Good morning Playbookers.
0:05.0	I'm Rugu Mnivalin.
0:07.0	The Scoop on the DHS Domestic Intelligence Program, plus a deep dive into Ron DeSantis' time
0:14.0	in the house.
0:15.0	Here are the big things we're watching on Monday, March 6th.
0:19.0	Politico colleague Betsy Woodruff Swan has an eye-popping story up in this morning's
0:23.6	playbook on a previously unreported DHS domestic intelligence program, as she writes one of
0:30.6	many revelations in a wide-ranging tranche of internal documents reviewed by Politico.
0:36.6	Those documents also reveal that a significant number of employees in DHS's intelligence
0:42.7	office have race concerns that the work they are doing could be illegal.
0:47.2	Under the Domestic Intelligence Program, officials are allowed to seek interviews with
0:52.7	just about anyone in the United States.
0:56.0	That includes people held in immigration detention centers, local jails, and federal prison.
1:02.0	DHS's intelligence professionals have to say they're conducting intelligence interviews,
1:08.0	and they have to tell the people that they seek to interview that their participation is voluntary.
1:13.6	But the fact that they're allowed to go directly to incarcerated people, circumventing their lawyers,
1:18.6	raises important civil liberty concerns, according to legal experts.
1:23.6	That specific element of the program, which has been in place for years, was paused last year because of internal concerns.
1:31.6	The details on the overt human intelligence collection program are just one revelation from the documents concerning the department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis,
1:42.5	which is right, Betsy reports, with widespread internal concerns
1:46.4	about legally questionable tactics and political pressure. You can catch the full story in today's
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