History Buff Spots Chilling Echo of 1861: DHS Moves Mirror Pre-Civil War 'Extremely Dangerous' Tactics
A historian has drawn a startling parallel between current U.S. Department of Homeland Security operations and the secretive, pre-Civil War "Special Committee" tactics that suppressed anti-slavery pamphlets in the South, calling the modern surveillance approach an "extremely dangerous" repetition of a forgotten censorship playbook.