The same week Hillary advocated deprogramming, Newsweek reported that the FBI seeks to track and counter Trump supporters.
Right after January 6, the FBI co-authored a restricted report in which it shifted the definition of AGAAVE from "Furtherance of ideological agendas" to "Furtherance of political and/or social agendas." For the first time, such groups could be so labeled because of their politics.
Trump and his army of supporters were acknowledged as a distinct category of domestic violent extremists, even as the FBI was saying publicly that political views were never part of its criteria to investigate or prevent domestic terrorism "We cannot and do not investigate ideology," a senior FBI official reassured the press after January 6.
"We focus on individuals who commit or intend to commit violence or criminal activity that constitutes a federal crime or poses a threat to national security." But the FBI went further in October 2022 when it created a new subcategory - "AGAAVE-Other" - of those who were a threat but do not fit into its anarchist, militia or Sovereign Citizen groups.
Introduced without any announcement, and reported here for the first time, the new classification is officially defined as "Domestic violent extremists who cite anti-government or anti-authority motivations for violence or criminal activity not otherwise defined, such as individuals motivated by a desire to commit violence against those with a real or perceived association with a specific political party or faction of a specific political party." You'll excuse me if I question the ability of the FBI to deal with the issue in a nonpartisan matter.
The FBI has been found untrustworthy and politically biased, and it isn't likely to reform any time soon.
In a statement to Newsweek, the agency asserted that it would "Never open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity." But its sincerity on that score seems highly suspect, based both on the revelation that Trump supporters are targeted more than other political groups and that the FBI was part of the Censorship Industrial Complex, according to The Twitter Files, not to mention that the FBI was planting spies in Catholic churches and pretending parents concerned about their kids' schooling were domestic terrorists.
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