PA State Police: Intelligence Bulletins Were ‘Unsubstantiated,’ Work of ‘Amateurs’

Pennsylvania lawmakers scrutinized the tracking of activities by “environmental extremists” and activist groups in a hearing on Monday.

As early as January, the head of the Pennsylvania State Police’s intelligence unit warned the state’s Office of Homeland Security [1] that its intelligence bulletins — compiled for the state by an anti-terrorism contractor — contained inaccurate and useless information about threats to state infrastructure, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

“I likened it to reading the National Enquirer. Every so often they have something right, but most of the time it's unsubstantiated gossip,” George Bivens, director of the state police’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, testified in a Pennsylvania Senate hearing Monday.

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