Posted on 08/12/2019 8:49:36 PM PDT by Blogger
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. FBI designates Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy-based theories as domestic threats. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Michael E. Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images, Matt Rourke/AP, AP)
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All a G-Man has to do is get on a blog like this one, push people’s buttons until they believe in the conspiracy theory du jour, and—hey! Presto!—FISA warrant. This is a deep-state conspiracy./sarc?
Also known from former Democratic insiders as the Arizona Mafia.
It's so transparent what the deep state is doing here. "If you vote for President Trump then you are an extremist."
Pretty soon, anyone who questions authority or disagrees with whatever the “story’ is, will be a theorist and therefore a terrorist.
the FBI under the magic negro has become a disgrace.
Yeah, keep telling me of all the good, honest hard working agents.
Bull pooh.
That’s funny. I believe the government through their various alphabet agencies are the biggest terrorist threats and there’s a literal mountain of evidence to back that up.
Being a skeptic is now terrorism. Get rid of the FBI.
But antifa is not..
Funny how that works. d;^)
Says the agency that has spent 4 damn years spinning a yarn about Communist collusion in the Trump campaign, (nevermind Communist aunt-fah, nevermind Kommie Harris, nevermind Bernie Zanderz, nevermind Obamunists, nevermind Dead Red Ted Kennedy working with the KGB to defeat President Reagan in 1984)
>>hmmm- no mention of the 9/11 conspiracy nutjobs claiming our government attacked our nation’s buildings?
There was a “feature length” movie that circulated on myspace in the 2000s promoting the 9/11 conspiracy and subsequent edits/updates made it an all encompassing theory (I think uniting the Kennedy assassination and the Catholic Church/DaVinci Code). And this thing was shared constantly on myspace (THE dominant pre-facebook social networking site).
Hmmm, wonder if Free Republic has a canary signal...
So much for free speech.
Dismantle the FBI. They have too much power, and the malevolent arrogance that makes evil.
“Like that Epstein has dirt on famous people. Now the New York Times is reporting this conspiracy theory.”
That’s hilarious. Because the only info Epstein had on famous people is which Sunday School they attended.
Like the Russian hoax or white supremacist problem?
Both made up completely yet they discuss this on the news. Everyone is guilty now.
Wray said the FBI does not investigate "ideology." Maybe he should tell Phoenix.
Wray told lawmakers the FBI had done away with separate categories for black identity extremists and white supremacists, and said the bureau was instead now focusing on “racially motivated” violence. But he added, “I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence.”
I don’t really believe the PizzaGate thing but why is the FBI attempting to squash a possible link to the Gay Mafia?
There is only one answer.
This is what the trip down the rabbit hole looks like.
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