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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Like the FBI’s own “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory?
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory/new domestic terrorism threat Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
That's my recall about the timing and usage of the stupid phrase "conspiracy theory".
Woo hoo! You mean like Russia collusion conspiracy theories? Go get ‘em FIBbers. Errr, I mean FBIers.
Antifa? - well that’s still under consideration probably - pictures of bloodied students and journalists and masked attackers don’t count........
The real news should be the FBI used snopes to make that determination I think!
There’s escalating violence connected to those QAnon “decoders” who post fake items pretending to be military intel. Does anyone believe today that US intel needs to post on the rancid 8Chan website known for porn and child porn?
Really?
Well, ok, “Trust Sessions.”
Yikes.
“I think the Q thing is silly too...”
Yeah, but the silly LARPing phase is over. Now, there’s real violence.
An NJ man shot a mob boss in Staten Island. Thought he was Deep State.
How much more serious can you get than murder? Of course the media will attach this to POTUS.
Who thinks that’s a good idea?
> 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.
however imho this can also be used indirectly by the media and groups such as antifa for justification of shutting out or shutting down any conservative/libertarian/independent communication or activity.
> 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.
The first diehard movie (1988) also portrayed the fbi as stupid... (so just how far back does the fbi problem go?)
So people excising the 1st Amendment Right to question certified known liars is now “domestic terrorism”?
Oh but what Antifa does is not domestic terror.
Then again yhe FBI now wants 2 years to turn over Page-Strzok docs. So the FISA declassify will not happen.
Yeah that want the delay in order to steal the election and then will delay indefinitel
So let me get this straight, Hillary, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strok, Page and the swamp all get a pass. But Hillary can pay some idiot to cook some crap up on Trump, and harass him for the last 3 years. Had my fill of double standards of “equal justice” under the law.”
So people excising the 1st Amendment Right to question certified known liars is now “domestic terrorism”?
Oh but what Antifa does is not domestic terror.
Then again yhe FBI now wants 2 years to turn over Page-Strzok docs. So the FISA declassify will not happen.
Yeah that want the delay in order to steal the election and then will delay indefinitely
So let me get this straight, Hillary, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strok, Page and the swamp all get a pass. But Hillary can pay some idiot to cook some crap up on Trump, and harass him for the last 3 years. Had my fill of double standards of “equal justice” under the law.”
George Bush, CIA Director, became president.
Bill Barr, CIA recruit, became his AG.
Here is a global conspiracy the FIB will not address:
Mohammedanism.
Hmmm
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