Biden's National Censorship Regime

American Thinker ^ | 23 Apr, 2025 | Wendi Strauch Mahoney

[MtnClimber]

Under the banner of national security, the Biden administration fused behavioral surveillance with ideological profiling to create a system that was intrusive, biased, and unconstitutional.

On April 16, Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Tulsi Gabbard declassified the Biden-era “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” The release followed an April 2 declassification request from Stephen Miller’ legal organization America First Legal (AFL). While much of the document’s content had been publicly discussed in general terms, the newly declassified version reveals troubling new specifics.

The declassified version features language that outlines how the Biden administration planned to operationalize counterterrorism efforts. It details strategy, actions, and performance measures, and assigns responsibility across agencies including the NSC, FBI, DHS, and DoJ. Notably, this was the first counterterrorism plan in U.S. history in which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prioritized Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) over foreign threats.

This declassified plan is one of several documents forming the backbone of the Biden administration’s counterterrorism strategy. While the documents claim an unbiased approach to identifying DVEs, much of the language and policy framework suggest otherwise -- raising significant constitutional and civil liberty concerns.

The Biden administration’s approach included social media surveillance, data collection, community-level monitoring, and even efforts to influence public narratives -- all under the broad umbrella of national security. It consistently targeted U.S. citizens labeled as domestic extremists, often based on subjective or politically biased criteria, and sometimes on the flimsiest of pretexts.

The operation began shortly after the 2021 inauguration. By March of that year, ODNI released an unclassified executive summary detailing the administration’s domestic terrorism focus:

- Racially and politically motivated DVEs

- Lone offenders more likely to carry out violent attacks on the homeland who were radicalized by online content

- Racially Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVEs)

[MtnClimber]

I wonder how many of us were under surveillance?

[sauropod]

Quite a few, I’ll bet.

[Qwapisking]

IF you are or were a Conservative of ANY stripe, had ever hung out with any conservative, met, lived next to or ever talked mistakenly to a Conservative, have or had family members, no matter HOW extended, or even accidentally watched, read or heard a Conservative expressing conservative ideals and/or ideas...YOU, my friends were the target of this UNAmerican evil.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Liz]

Biden’s counter-terrorism MO claiming an “unbiased approach”
but used unconstitutional and blatant civil liberty infringements:
<><>included social media surveillance,
<><>intrusive data collection,
<><>community-level monitoring,
<><>efforts to influence public narratives
<><>consistently targeted US citizens he labeled “domestic extremists,”
<><>such as Catholics and parents at school board meetings
<><>based investigations on subjective/politically biased criteria,
<><>and on the flimsiest of pretexts by Biden operatives.

The sordid Biden operation began after his Jan 2021 inauguration. By March
an unclassified executive summary detailed Biden’s domestic terrorism focus:
<><>politically motivated Domestic Violent Extremists
<><>lone offenders likely to carry out violent attacks on the homeland
<><>those radicalized by online content
<><>and Racially Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVEs)