Posted on 09/17/2020 11:10:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
FBI Director Christopher Wray described Antifa as "a real thing" during a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, noting that the bureau has open cases against individuals who self-identify as anti-fascist activists.
Wray, who was testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee as part of its Worldwide Threat hearing, was responded to questions about the level of threat the movement poses.
"Antifa is a real thing. It’s not a fiction," Wray said of the far-left group.
"We look at Antifa as more of an ideology or a movement than we do an organization. We do have quite a number of properly predicated domestic terrorism investigations into violent anarchist extremists, any number of whom self-identify with the Antifa movement," he added.
The FBI chief also said that some who identify with the Antifa movement have been coalescing regionally in certain areas, and that the FBI is examining potential violence from these small groups or nodes.
"We are actively investigating the potential violence from these regional nodes, if you will," Wray said.
He was pressed repeatedly on the topic of Antifa by both sides, but Democrats and Republicans framed their questions about Antifa far differently, with Democrats appearing to seek responses with a low evaluation of the threat posed by Antifa and Republicans appearing to seek ones with a higher threat evaluation.
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Hey, Chris!
SO IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM BY ANTIFA!....................
#TrustWray (gag)
They just randomly bump into each other in the street, then agree to go riot/loot/mayhem/kill/arson. It’s a natural thing...spontaneous events spurred on by the likes of YouTube and whatnot...
After blaming the fictional skinhead groups for burning the cities.
Follow the money trail ........ back to Soreass!
Go to Antifa.com
Go’s right to Biden donation page
Someone was dropping off pallets of bricks.
Someone was setting up tent cities.
Someone was supplying transportation.
Someone was supplying food.
Someone was handing communications.
Seems kinda organized.
The fact that he wasn’t fired on the spot for saying antifa is not an organization tells you all you need to know about the government.
He’s either a fellow traveler or an complete fool.
In Other words:
The Organization has multiple High Ranking Government Officials, Congressmen and Senators at the head calling the shots, so we choose to see it as an Ideoligical Movement instead.
Meanwhile, if three people who believe in the Constitution happen to have coffee together, that’s a neo Nazi nationalist hate group.
Antifa are FBI assets. There are federal indictments that were literally copy-pasted from Antifa blogs like Unicorn Riot against so called “White Supremacists”.
And you know there has to be video of those bricks being dropped off. There had to be some cameras working before the riots.
Somebody knows a lot of things that aren’t being told to the rest of us.
captain obvious alert! fbi investigation determines that antifa is real!
Was there a question?
My idiot liberal neighbor no longer speaks to me because, she says, “There’s no such thing as Antifa.” And “far-right extremists set the fires in CA and OR.” We’re still gasping in the smoke.
Cannot fix stupid.
Never forget, Las Vegas happened on his watch.
Wasn’t he supposed to resign if McCabe was fired?
This is pulling teeth.
They have to drag him kicking and scream to reluctantly admit Antifa is 'real'.
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