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FBI Ramps Up Spending to Fight MAGA Terrorism
Newsweek ^ | 5 Dec, 2022 | WILLIAM M. ARKIN

Posted on 12/05/2022 5:27:06 AM PST by MtnClimber

The FBI is conducting three times as many domestic terrorism investigations than it was five years ago, with 70 percent of its open cases focused on "civil unrest" and anti-government activity, according to FBI documents and government specialists. The Bureau has also quietly changed the general classification of white supremacy, antisemitism, abortion-, and anti-LGBTQI+-related extremism to "hate crimes" rather than "terrorism." Since terrorism remains the top national security priority, this has lowered the visibility and resources dedicated to those issues.

The FBI considers all violent acts (and threats of violence) with a political motive to be terrorism, a senior government official explains to Newsweek. But not all acts of extremism are considered terrorism. "If an act is focused on the government, it's terrorism," the source says. "But if extremism is focused on private individuals or institutions, it's considered just a crime or classified as a hate crime." The source was granted anonymity to speak about classified matters.

On one level, the senior government source says, this is a more precise definition of domestic terrorism: the label is applied only to acts with political motives and mass casualties. But in reality, the tweaked classification inserts the FBI and counterterror investigators into the political life of the nation.

According to internal FBI numbers obtained by Newsweek, "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism" was considered the prime threat (and dominated investigations) before January 6. Since then, anti-government, "anti-authority" and civil unrest cases have taken over as the number one threat, making up almost 90 percent of all investigations.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestwray; bias; communism; defundthegestapo; fbidomesticterrorism; maga; mediabias; policestate
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To: RoosterRedux

LOL...From looking around the streets and shops, I think you’re right....


41 posted on 12/05/2022 6:30:36 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: oldguy1776

I’d rather be playing cards and eating fish eye soup with Trump in a concentration camp than live life like this another day. I find little joy in anyting now-a-days. I am old enough to remember.....


42 posted on 12/05/2022 6:33:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber
Funny how they don’t consider BLM or ANTIFA to be terrorists. It is a strange time we are in.

A DANGEROUS time we are in.

43 posted on 12/05/2022 6:37:38 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

So they allow a literally, racist (fraudulent) organization, that uses a racist acronym like “Black Lives Matter” to commit murders, riots, looting, arson and other violent crimes.

But for using a non-racist acronym like “All Lives Matter” or “Make America Great Again” is committing domestic terrorism.

But their not political. Honest . . .


44 posted on 12/05/2022 6:51:00 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: MtnClimber

45 posted on 12/05/2022 7:00:02 AM PST by 4Liberty (Kamala’s relatives owned slaves.)
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To: MtnClimber

BurnLootMurder and AuntyFag are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Feeb.


46 posted on 12/05/2022 7:01:08 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MtnClimber
I remember a kid in junior high whose big brother was a very large 8th grader.

The younger kid would strut around the schoolyard picking on boys and girls because his big brother was within earshot.

That's exactly what's happening in America.

Those Woke snowflakes, BLM punks, criminals on early release, and others on the radical left break the law and threaten Americans all they want because their big brother, the FBI, is right behind them.

As a follow-up on the school yard story, one day a bunch of kids got fed up with the whole situation and confronted the kid and his big brother. The cowardly duo (little bully and big brother) was(were) chased down the street with their tails between their legs. And that was the end of that.

47 posted on 12/05/2022 7:09:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

His is the equivalent of a parent telling a child there’s a monster in the closet to keep them from roaming free…


48 posted on 12/05/2022 7:16:52 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: MtnClimber

ANTIFA!


49 posted on 12/05/2022 7:20:09 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Dumpster Fire Country.)
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To: MtnClimber

The KGB has to protect the State.


50 posted on 12/05/2022 7:39:31 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas is available on Barnes and Noble )
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To: MtnClimber

Thus, the FBI are the defenders of this communist federal government’s NWO reset for the US. In other words, this federal government is the real enemy.


51 posted on 12/05/2022 8:34:51 AM PST by drypowder
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To: MtnClimber

Not a penny, however, is being spent to stop left-wing terrorism against Crisis Pregnancy Centers and churches. And, Antifa continues its terrorist activity unabated.


52 posted on 12/05/2022 8:39:49 AM PST by Kazan
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To: MtnClimber

Defund Police + Free Bail + Civil Unrest = Repeat

FIB is looking in all the wrong places huh Moe.

Biden hunts for his lost ice cream cone


53 posted on 12/05/2022 8:41:50 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: MtnClimber

http://fakehatecrimes.org

The FBI was in on the story about the ‘Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’ that Hillary exposed. The big ‘secret’ was a joke. The FBI’s been infiltrated for a long time - and they’re stupid... A few recent examples:

The person who shot up the gay nightclub was a ‘gender neutral’ and he/it/whatever wanted the press to use the term ‘Mx’ in front of his name.

The man who shot up the Walmart was a black democrat who supported Obama

The above link is a nice place to see how many ‘hate crimes’ are really frauds done by liberals and liberal grievance groups. Maybe FBI thugs should click on the link...get a clue.

http://fakehatecrimes.org


54 posted on 12/05/2022 8:48:29 AM PST by GOPJ (Has Biden had dinner with an anti-evangelical? Will Schumer condemn him if he has?)
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To: MtnClimber

| WILLIAM M. ARKIN the idiot who wrote this should ask the FBI for the raw ‘violence numbers’.

How many deaths in the last three months were done by white middle-class, middle aged conservative Americans?

And how many we’re done by Black/people of color liberal democrat Americans. Raw numbers Arkin...

Collect the numbers William Arkin - then get a clue. Here’s a site that might help:

http://fakehatecrimes.org


55 posted on 12/05/2022 8:52:29 AM PST by GOPJ (Has Biden had dinner with an anti-evangelical? Will Schumer condemn him if he has?)
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To: FlipWilson
STASI gonna do what STASI gonna do.

Fight back with the truth:
http://fakehatecrimes.org

56 posted on 12/05/2022 9:44:55 AM PST by GOPJ (Has Biden had dinner with an anti-evangelical? Will Schumer condemn him if he has?)
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To: central_va
"Defund the Fedstapo."
Not bloody likely. The first thing Hoover did was collect dirt on politicians.
57 posted on 12/05/2022 11:06:31 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: lowbridge

“”It’s not because the FBI is partisan”

They are, but it’s not because of that.


58 posted on 12/05/2022 12:47:24 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: AndyTheBear

This is no longer a matter of politization of an unelected Executive Branch agency against American citizens; it’s a matter of militarization of an unelected Executive Branch agency against American citizens.


59 posted on 12/05/2022 12:51:54 PM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: MtnClimber

What MAGA violence has there been so far? Ramping up? Considering what they have already done ramping up would mean shooting on sight. These people are dangerous and it is the people that should fear the FBI violence. I think at this point criminal psychopaths are the only people who would want to work at the FBI. The same kind of people who worked for Hilter and enjoyed the power over the masses.


60 posted on 12/06/2022 4:36:33 AM PST by vivenne
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