/4 The documents indicate that under the Biden Administration, the federal government has used January 6 to justify expanding efforts to gather information on what they consider “DVE” or “Domestic Violent Extremists.”
/8 The historic approach of the Biden Administration, as evidenced by these documents and the DOJ's sentencing of Douglass Mackey to 7 months in prison for posting memes before the 2016 election, is that online speech must consider “serious” only when it comes from conservatives. .
/11 The translation is that it appears that the committee was interested in DHS using the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis to push the boundaries of activity that was traditionally thought to be off-limits, and using on January 6 as an excuse to do so.
/15 The group also discussed using the fabricated and illegal raid on President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, where the FBI took photographs to fabricate incriminating evidence, to justify its expanded activities. ..
/19 These documents, obtained exclusively by AFL through litigation against DHS, show that there is a marked difference between how I&A (intelligence collected and reported by DHS) operated before and after January 6th. They show how the standards followed under the Trump administration to respect constitutional rights and civil liberties are apparently no longer being followed under the Biden administration.
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