Posted on 08/01/2019 2:26:47 PM PDT by Rio
The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News. (Read the document below.)
The FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau’s Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019, describes “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists,” as a growing threat, and notes that it is the first such report to do so. It lists a number of arrests, including some that haven’t been publicized, related to violent incidents motivated by fringe beliefs.
The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Trump, and Pizzagate, the theory that a pedophile ring including Clinton associates was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant (which didn’t actually have a basement).
“The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.
The FBI said another factor driving the intensity of this threat is “the uncovering of real conspiracies or cover-ups involving illegal, harmful, or unconstitutional activities by government officials or leading political figures.” The FBI does not specify which political leaders or which cover-ups it was referring to.
President Trump is mentioned by name briefly in the latest FBI document, which notes that the origins of QAnon is the conspiratorial belief that “Q,” allegedly a government official, “posts classified information online to reveal a covert effort, led by President Trump, to dismantle a conspiracy involving ‘deep state’ actors and global elites allegedly engaged in an international child sex trafficking ring.”
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The FBI has become a garbage institution.
I trust nothing they say.
Burn & destroy Quantico.
They have become traitors...
The FBI is why the founders made the 2nd amendment.
Remember this when you have jury duty.
like, an *idea* is a domestic terrorism threat?
an *idea*? as in *thought* *crimes*?
“When asked about Antifa, the FBI failed to respond.”
These are the machinations of control.
It’s over, save for the man Donald Trump.
He fights alone,
this document, if accurate, is the logical evolution of the sore loserman concept.
at a minimum, the fbi has now effectively declared “open season” on vocal conservatives and independents, their organizations, their publications, and their peaceful meetings.
the fbi needs to be bulldozed, plowed under, and the space it once occupied sowed with salt.
Our government is a domestic terrorism threat.
Interesting, but as it only is a notice concerning a “threat”, not of a theory, but someone may do damage because of it, I’m not surprised.
When they start arresting folks for publishing conspiracy theories, it’s a problem - which brings us to that 4 chan case...
Whut?
Do you really think Trump is on board with the FBI warning that conspiracy theorists are terrorists?
Well then anyone in the U.S. all citizens included need to give up their 4th and 5th amendment rights and submit to total surviellance.
We need to get rid of these police state agencies; they have no external control or check on their power. Send all cases that deal with domestic issues back to state agencies and state DOJ. That way if they screw up, the governor or AG will be responsible and out of a job.
Those cases dealing with foreign citizens need to be more closely monitored. Perhaps more judicial and legislative review. All agents and prosecutors must strictly adhere to constution and BOR, and if not, case dismissed, agent prosecutor fired.
Where’s the guy with the FBI highlights pics featuring David Koresh?
A while back some folks were trying to use a case the author was involved in to promote a media shield law.
She was poster child for a media shield law which of course would crown liberal reporters as a special protected class.
Yeah but we know antifa is a terrorist threat. So where is your report on them?
Once vaunted fbi is horseshit at this point
In that case the FBI should be shut down and everyone there arrested.
That deep state scumbag Wray has his fingerprints all over this.
The number one fringe belief today is that Donald Trump broke some law or other, somewhere, sometime.
“the fbi can now write off any expectation of cooperation from civilians
Amen. Civil disobedience.
1. Never talk to them. Whether target or witness. It’s stupid because you can be set up like Flynn.
2. If on jury don’t accept any of their evidence, jury nullification.
3. Keep up the conversation and talk them down when you get the chance.
IIRC, the expression “conspiracy theory” is itself a CIA creation, post-JFK assassination. Oh wait, scratch that, I’ll need to verify with Snopes /s
There are people here on FR who compared me to AQ for questioning the Sandy Hoax official narrative. Gatekeepers everywhere, lol. They can go shove the Washington monument up their @#%$&
The FBI has become a threat, as it has become autonomous and independent of the US citizenry.
The last time we tried to work with the FBI on a eco-fascist bombing at a University, I thought we had been connected to the Keystone Cops. Talk about a 50 IQ ape. The moron had a chart that explained exhaling and inhaling.
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