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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“Vote out Joe.”
We did that in 2020. How did that work out for us?
We need to get it into our heads that VOTING DOES NOT MATTER any more.
“They are not after me, they are after you!”
Is there a communist extremist category?
Yep, Obama’s DHS headed by Janet Napolitano with their Domestic Extremist Lexicon which included returning veterans.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Domestic+Extremist+Lexicon&ia=web
What’s to stop a Valerie Jarrett Iranian sleeper cell from purchasing a $20 Walmart drone and attaching a small tactical nuclear warhead on it to be dropped on the FBI building.
Or perhaps drop one on the head of Himmler Garland.
The possibilities are endless. Just saying. /spit
There are about twenty feebs here already.
Sounds like the best reason for the FBI to be dissolved en masse. Root out the rest of the communists in government and fire them as well. No stone unturned.
Over decades, Arkin’s investigative work has resulted in numerous firsts — He was first to reveal the locations of nuclear weapons worldwide in the early 1980’s, first to bring attention to nuclear weapons at sea and visits by nuclear armed ships to foreign ports, first to write about continuity of government plans of the U.S. government, first to write about the civilian effects of cluster bombs and the bombing of electrical power in warfare, first to bring to light Pentagon plans to develop microwave and acoustic weapons and blinding lasers, the first military analyst to visit Iraq after Desert Storm in 1991, first to reveal the domestic spying “Talon” program of the Pentagon, first to reveal the vociferous anti-Muslim views of then counter-terrorism czar Gen. William Boykin, first to reveal the web of codenames that make up government secrecy, first to write about the growth of “Top Secret America” after 9/11, first to write about the U.S. deployment of low-yield nuclear weapons on Trident missiles, and first to reveal the extensive “signature reduction” programs of the military.
“...the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.”
This tells me that the FBI is already planning another attack on the Capitol to justify their political suppression.
Yeah, do we get a membership card? Some cool t-shirts?
I was hoping for jackets.
I’ve got the cool t-shirts part handled. Somebody else can do the membership cards.
fascism is as fascism does ...
Two words, Bring It.
They are all working for the #JihadJunta.
Yes, they’re so tired of tracking Antifa and organized looters; and besides, most of them have been locked up by now. /s
“Donald Trump’s Army of MAGA followers...”
“It’s a big list...and you’re on it!” ~ George Carlin (paraphrased)
I wonder how many are keeping an eye on Antifa
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