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\"\"<\/a>New York Post, October 5, 2023<\/p>\n

Is the FBI turning Trump supporters into terrorist targets?<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s supporters are now in the FBI terrorist-investigation crosshairs, according to a new report\u00a0in Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The agency has created\u00a0\u201ca new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump\u2019s army of MAGA followers\u201d; it\u2019s targeting strident Republicans with some of the same counterterrorism methods honed to fight al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

Federal bureaucrats heaved together a bunch of letters to contrive an ominous new acronym for the latest peril to domestic tranquility.<\/p>\n

The result: AGAAVE \u2014 \u201canti-government, anti-authority violent extremism\u201d \u2014 which looks like a typo for a sugar substitute.<\/p>\n

The great majority of the FBI\u2019s \u201ccurrent \u2018anti-government\u2019 investigations are of Trump supporters,\u201d William Arkin, a highly respected investigative journalist, reported in Newsweek.<\/p>\n

The FBI recently vastly expanded the supposed AGAAVE peril by broadening suspicion from \u201cfurtherance of ideological agendas\u201d to \u201cfurtherance of political and\/or social agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone who has an agenda different from Team Biden\u2019s could be AGAAVE\u2019d for his own good.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration is vilifying anti-government opinions at the same time judges are exposing federal crimes.<\/p>\n

Federal court decisions in July and September condemned the Biden censorship regime \u2014 and those rulings were preceded by Supreme Court decisions striking down President Joe Biden\u2019s student-loan-forgiveness scheme and vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n

But Team Biden still presumes anyone who suspects the feds are violating the Constitution is up to no good.<\/p>\n

The FBI is required to have (or claim to have) solid information before launching a criminal investigation. But the bureau needs almost zero information to open an \u201cassessment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI conducted more than 5,500 domestic-terrorism \u201cassessments\u201d in 2021, a 10-fold increase since 2017 and a 50-fold increase since 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssessments are the closest thing to domestic spying that exists in America and generally not talked about by the Bureau,\u201d Arkin noted.<\/p>\n

Those assessments could prove perilous because the official demand for terrorists far exceeds the domestic supply. A top federal official told Newsweek last year: \u201cWe\u2019ve become too prone to\u00a0labeling anything<\/a>\u00a0we don\u2019t like as extremism, and then any extremist as a terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee warns that\u00a0\u00a0\u201cthe FBI\u00a0appears to be complicit<\/a>\u00a0in artificially supporting the Administration\u2019s political narrative\u201d that domestic violent extremism is \u201cthe \u2018greatest threat\u2019 facing the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

FBI whistleblower Steve Friend complained of current FBI leadership: \u201cThere is this belief that half the country are domestic terrorists and we can\u2019t have a conversation with them. There is a fundamental belief that unless\u00a0you are voicing<\/a>\u00a0what we agree . . . you are the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did the Biden administration secretly want Newsweek to vindicate the fears of legions of Trump supporters?<\/p>\n

Perhaps those \u201cassessments\u201d are repeating a tactic used against Vietnam War protesters: FBI agents were encouraged to conduct frequent interviews with antiwar activists to \u201cenhance the paranoia endemic in such circles\u201d and \u201cget the point across that there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox,\u201d according to an FBI memo from that era.<\/p>\n

The more paranoid Trump supporters become, the easier it will be for Team Biden to portray them as public menaces.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s war on extremism could become a self-fulfilling prophecy that destroys American political legitimacy. An official in the Office of Director of National Intelligence lamented: \u201cSo we have the president increasing his own inflammatory rhetoric which leads Donald Trump and the Republicans to do the same\u201d \u2014 and the media follow suit.<\/p>\n

Biden is exempt from official suspicion even when he denounced Republicans as fascists who want to destroy democracy. Yet if Republicans sound equally overheated, Biden\u2019s FBI has pretexts to target them.<\/p>\n

Will the FBI\u2019s interventions in the 2024 presidential election be even more brazen than its 2016 and 2020 stunts? Will the agency exploit its \u201cassessments\u201d to recruit knuckleheads to engage in another pre-election Keystone Kops plot to kidnap a governor, as it did in Michigan in 2020?<\/p>\n

New crackdowns on purported extremists are especially perilous when FBI seems to stand for \u201cFollowing Biden\u2019s Instructions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00a01976 Senate report on FBI abuses warned:\u00a0\u201cThe American people need to be assured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers threats to the established order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Americans may not learn the damning details of another FBI \u201csecret war\u201d until long after the next election.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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