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That figure covers the department as a whole, not any single agency inside it.\n\nA second number comes from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the DHS arm that runs criminal investigations. HSI estimates it has sent more administrative subpoenas since January 2025 than it did in the more than six and a half years from 2016 to mid-August 2022. That is an HSI-only comparison, and it is an estimate. It measures something different from the 185,000, so the two should not be added together or read as one series.\n\nAn administrative subpoena is a demand for records that an agency issues on its own authority, without a judge signing off first. That is why counts like these matter. Courts are not a built-in checkpoint for this tool, so the totals are one way for outsiders to see how often it is used.\n\nThe totals leave a lot unanswered: what the subpoenas sought, who received them, and how many were challenged or withdrawn.","[\"dhs\",\"subpoenas\",\"privacy\",\"surveillance\"]","2026-11-09T10:00:00.000Z","2026-11-09T10:27:33.135Z","2026-11-09T10:27:33.357Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the sourcing commentary ('The source gives no breakdown...') and rewrite it as reader-facing context. Drop the unsupported claim that the comparison is 'lopsided by construction', which implies it is misleading, and the claim that a volume jump 'matters more than the same jump in warrants'. Make it clear whether the 185,000 figure is HSI's or all of DHS's, and keep the headline, dek and body consistent on who issued the subpoenas and the time span. Define the current window (January 2025 ","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Remove the unsupported inference that cheap paperwork means the jump 'says more about a change in policy or priorities than about a change in capacity', and the repetitive 'contrast in time spans' paragraph. Keep the headline, dek and body consistent on timing: the source ties the 185,000 figure to 'since Trump took office', not 'since January 2025', and the body drifts between the two. 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