Washington | The head of the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence branch was removed from his position after his office compiled reports about protesters and journalists covering the Trump administration's response to unrest in Portland, Oregon, last month.

Brian Murphy, the acting undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, was reassigned to a new position in the department after his office disseminated to the law enforcement community "open-source intelligence reports" containing Twitter posts of journalists, noting they had published leaked unclassified documents, according to an administration official familiar with the matter. It was not clear what Mr Murphy's new position would be.