Biden's National Censorship Regime

 On April 16, 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), declassified the "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism" from the Biden administration. This release followed a request from America First Legal and reveals critical details about the administration's counterterrorism efforts.

1. Operational Plan Details: The declassified document includes strategies involving multiple agencies (NSC, FBI, DHS, DoJ) focusing on Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE), which was prioritized over foreign threats for the first time in U. S. history.

2. Concerns Over Civil Liberties: Although claiming an unbiased approach, the language in the plan raises constitutional issues. The methods included social media surveillance and monitoring citizens labeled as extremists based on subjective criteria.

3. Focus on Domestic Threats: The strategy, initiated after Biden's inauguration, identified DVEs, particularly racially and politically motivated individuals, lone offenders radicalized online, and various extremist groups, including pro-life advocates.

4. Use of Precedents: The Capitol protest on January 6 served as a justification for heightened scrutiny and an expansive counterterrorism approach that involved surveillance and arrests of non-violent individuals.

5. Strategic Framework:

• Conducting information analysis on domestic terrorism.

• Collaborating with communities to recognize DVEs, likened to encouraging "snitching. "

• Disrupting domestic terrorism activities.

• Addressing long-term causes of domestic terrorism.

6. Expanding Surveillance: By 2023, actions from the DHS, including the establishment of the Homeland Intelligence Expert Group, were aimed at identifying disinformation linked to DVEs.

7. Influencing Public Opinion: Programs presented as "digital literacy" sought to shape how communities identified misinformation, often in collaboration with NGOs and framed as neutral initiatives.

8. Financial Support for Monitoring: Significant funding was allocated for training materials aimed at detecting early signs of radicalization, leading to potential criminalization of dissent and normalizing political profiling.

9. Technological Cooperation: Evidence suggested collaboration between the government and tech companies to suppress certain narratives and dissenting voices on platforms like Twitter.

10. Vague Definitions of Extremism: Officials described DVEs using vague psychological profiles, undermining the First Amendment and raising concerns about free speech.

11. Cognitive Infrastructure: References to "cognitive infrastructure" highlighted a troubling blend of surveillance and ideological profiling, creating a system viewed as unconstitutional.

The declassified plan underscores a significant shift in counterterrorism strategy under the Biden administration, focusing on domestic threats and raising serious concerns about civil liberties, free speech, and government overreach. 

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