Posted on 10/04/2023 10:03:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers.
The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current "anti-government" investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.
"The FBI is in an almost impossible position," says a current FBI official, who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive internal matters. The official said that the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But the Bureau must also preserve the Constitutional right of all Americans to campaign, speak freely and protest the government. By focusing on former president Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, the official said, the Bureau runs the risk of provoking the very anti-government activists that the terrorism agencies hope to counter.
"Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has 'weaponized' the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully," says the official.
Newsweek spoke to over a dozen current or former government officials who specialize in terrorism in a three-month investigation to understand the current domestic-security landscape and to evaluate what President Joe Biden's administration is doing about what it calls domestic terrorism. Most requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly, were reluctant to stray into partisan politics or feared repercussions of speaking frankly.
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And yet these losers in the Eff Bee Eye have no problem with Antifa terrorists or the Burn Loot Murder BLM crazies.
Sounds like election interference, by some of the highest branches of government. Screams ILLEGAL. There’s going to be a lot more of that the closer we get.
Not a new tactic, just double speak. They don’t care one iota about the constitution, but it sounds nice when they say it.
What kind of plates? I went to some tea party rallies but don’t remember the story about the FBI taking pics of plates
The quandary the FBI is in and so flummoxed is that their surveillance and intimidation efforts will have to cover an enormous amount of the population.
They could probably look into AI. But if it’s true artificial intelligence, unfettered, they themselves would be at risk of accusation and calls for surveillance and intimidation.
Yep, the FBI has already issued undercover clothing for the "Special" Agents in this Division:
They are outlawing opposition.
The fbi is simply a modern day stasi.
Sovereign citizens. Interesting.
“ The official said that the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.“
There was no attack. If a crowd that size had attacked the capitol there wouldn’t t be a capitol or an FBI anymore.
Government against its people, not good
William Arkin is NEVER TO BE TRUSTED. His anti-American credentials have long been established by his role in the Communist-co-funded Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), created in part by the father of red diaper baby Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Marcus Raskin.
He uncovered or got and published US nuclear bases locations and other secret defense secrets as well as trying to derail US defenses against the Communists. See: www.keywiki.org for more on him.
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Anyone think the FBI isn’t politically biased? Of course, the real problem is the White House. Vote out Joe.
I guess the bureaucracy in the FBI is perfectly comfortable with being politically biased.
The FBI is the reason WHY this corrupt, senile man is in the White House. They sat on Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop since December 2019; had the truth emerged we never would have had the Bolsheviks in power.
The FBI doesn’t have to follow unlawful orders, but they’re going to do it anyway.
We saw that crawl at the bottom of the Newsmax screen yesterday and wondered what it meant.
More banana republic stuff. The people in power tormenting and persecuting the opposition. Nobody cares.
I’m sure they’re tripling the size of Gitmo as we speak. The only thing standing between us and a one-way train ticket is President Trump. They’re not after him - He’s just in The Way. He is being indicted for all of us.
“there will be events that are made up of whole cloth,”
What’s this “will be” sh!t, Kemosabe? Look at the J6 prisoners in solitary confinement who weren’t even in DC that day?
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