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sandensea

(22,850 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 12:27 AM Aug 2019

FBI ranks 'black identity extremists' bigger threats than Al Qaeda, white supremacists: leaked docs

Leaked FBI documents indicate "black identity extremists" and animal rights activists are among the agency's top counterterrorism priorities under President Donald Trump.

The FBI's priority list documents, obtained by The Young Turks Thursday, lay out the Bureau's 2018 fiscal year focal points in counterterrorism, cyber crime and counterintelligence.

An internal FBI report from August 2017 was widely criticized for using the BIE label, which many called racist. But the Consolidated Strategy Guide documents leaked this week show the FBI kept the term and made BIEs one of its top counterterrorism priorities.

Under the Trump administration, they're considered a bigger threat than terror groups such as Al Qaeda.

"Animal rights/environmental extremists" and "anti-authority extremists" were also deemed top existential threats.

At: https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-leak-black-identity-extremist-threat-1453362

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FBI ranks 'black identity extremists' bigger threats than Al Qaeda, white supremacists: leaked docs (Original Post) sandensea Aug 2019 OP
... FirstLight Aug 2019 #1
You're not kidding sandensea Aug 2019 #2

FirstLight

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Fri Aug 9, 2019, 12:33 AM
Aug 2019

....why do I feel like we are re-upping Germany 1938...? The first to be grabbed were "extremests" "communists" and "resistance"


*gulp*

sandensea

(22,850 posts)
2. You're not kidding
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 12:39 AM
Aug 2019

That's been a fond wish of the far right (and the not-so far right) for decades.

They feel Cheeto's their best shot at finally bring that about, or something like it.

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