'Soviet-style political policing': Top Trump staffer creating an official 'enemies list'

'This should be a scandal': Columnist alarmed as Trump loyalist eyes new 'enemies list'

Acting Undersecretary of State Darren Beattie is looking to assemble a “Twitter files”-style document trove to “build a blacklist of people who should be frozen out or even targeted by the administration as enemies,” warned Atlantic columnist Tom Nichols, who added the move could also “chill any contact between [the government] and people or organizations who have not passed the administration’s political purity tests.”Beattie, a “self-styled id…

'Soviet-style political policing': Top Trump staffer creating an official 'enemies list'

Acting Undersecretary of State Darren Beattie is looking to assemble a “Twitter files”-style document trove to “build a blacklist of people who should be frozen out or even targeted by the administration as enemies,” says Atlantic columnist Tom Nichols, who added the move could also “chill any contact between [the government] and people or organizations who have not passed the administration’s political purity tests.”Beattie, a “self-styled ideo…