#politicization

“The risk that the #Trump administration is willing to go to extreme lengths to politicize #grant-making is not a hypothetical,” said Devin O’Connor, a senior fellow at the Center on #Budget & #Policy Priorities.… “If they are willing to be that blatant about it,” O’Connor said of the #court filing, “then I think we should take seriously when they put forward a framework that would allow for the extreme #politicization of grant-making across all of the federal government.” #MafiaState #law

But #terrorism experts said that such framing inflates the threat posed by left-wing extremists & underestimates the true scope of the challenge in combating terrorism broadly. “This is the #politicization of #intelligence, & it’s dangerous because what they’re doing is basically playing #partisan #politics with counterterrorism, & only looking at a sliver of the overall threat,” said Colin P. Clarke, Soufan Center exec dir, who has testified before Congress on numerous occasions as an expert….