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Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat
Yahoo News ^ | 8/1/2019 | Jana Winter

Posted on 08/01/2019 2:26:47 PM PDT by Rio

The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News. (Read the document below.)

The FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau’s Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019, describes “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists,” as a growing threat, and notes that it is the first such report to do so. It lists a number of arrests, including some that haven’t been publicized, related to violent incidents motivated by fringe beliefs.

The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Trump, and Pizzagate, the theory that a pedophile ring including Clinton associates was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant (which didn’t actually have a basement).

“The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.

The FBI said another factor driving the intensity of this threat is “the uncovering of real conspiracies or cover-ups involving illegal, harmful, or unconstitutional activities by government officials or leading political figures.” The FBI does not specify which political leaders or which cover-ups it was referring to.

President Trump is mentioned by name briefly in the latest FBI document, which notes that the origins of QAnon is the conspiratorial belief that “Q,” allegedly a government official, “posts classified information online to reveal a covert effort, led by President Trump, to dismantle a conspiracy involving ‘deep state’ actors and global elites allegedly engaged in an international child sex trafficking ring.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 201905; 20190530; conspiracytheories; fbi; janawinter; leaks; mediashieldlaw; pedoring; phoenix; phoenixfieldoffice; phoenixoffice; pizzagate; qanon; wot
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To: Rio

Like the FBI’s own “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory?


41 posted on 08/01/2019 3:46:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: Rio; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory/new domestic terrorism threat Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...


42 posted on 08/01/2019 3:47:13 PM PDT by null and void (Without the 3 laws, "I, Robot" becomes "Terminator".)
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To: Rio

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/1/fbi-says-qanon-conspiracy-theories-domestic-terror/


43 posted on 08/01/2019 3:49:40 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Rio
FBI Director Wray: I strongly share Barr’s concerns about encrypted devices and messaging platforms, cites Sutherland Springs Apple case
44 posted on 08/01/2019 3:55:46 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: SecAmndmt
IIRC, the expression “conspiracy theory” is itself a CIA creation, post-JFK assassination.

That's my recall about the timing and usage of the stupid phrase "conspiracy theory".

45 posted on 08/01/2019 4:00:49 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Rio

Woo hoo! You mean like Russia collusion conspiracy theories? Go get ‘em FIBbers. Errr, I mean FBIers.


46 posted on 08/01/2019 4:04:06 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: FreeReign
Do you really think Trump is on board with the FBI warning that conspiracy theorists are terrorists?

Trump doesn't want these people wearing their T-shirts and waving their posters at his campaign rallies, so he does have a problem with them.

Besides, some of these people complain about being "incels" and when I looked that up, that's a special kind of nutso.
47 posted on 08/01/2019 4:23:19 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Rio

Antifa? - well that’s still under consideration probably - pictures of bloodied students and journalists and masked attackers don’t count........


48 posted on 08/01/2019 4:25:10 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Rio

The real news should be the FBI used snopes to make that determination I think!


49 posted on 08/01/2019 4:57:49 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: Rio

There’s escalating violence connected to those QAnon “decoders” who post fake items pretending to be military intel. Does anyone believe today that US intel needs to post on the rancid 8Chan website known for porn and child porn?

Really?

Well, ok, “Trust Sessions.”

Yikes.


50 posted on 08/01/2019 5:12:47 PM PDT by romanesq (MAGA Coalition sues QAnon & will expose the QAnon grifters!)
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To: piasa

“I think the Q thing is silly too...”

Yeah, but the silly LARPing phase is over. Now, there’s real violence.
An NJ man shot a mob boss in Staten Island. Thought he was Deep State.

How much more serious can you get than murder? Of course the media will attach this to POTUS.

Who thinks that’s a good idea?


51 posted on 08/01/2019 5:14:39 PM PDT by romanesq (MAGA Coalition sues QAnon & will expose the QAnon grifters!)
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To: fruser1

> Interesting, but as it only is a notice concerning a “threat”, not of a theory, but someone may do damage because of it, I’m not surprised.

however imho this can also be used indirectly by the media and groups such as antifa for justification of shutting out or shutting down any conservative/libertarian/independent communication or activity.


52 posted on 08/01/2019 5:14:45 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: sergeantdave

> The last time we tried to work with the FBI on a eco-fascist bombing at a University, I thought we had been connected to the Keystone Cops. Talk about a 50 IQ ape. The moron had a chart that explained exhaling and inhaling.

The first diehard movie (1988) also portrayed the fbi as stupid... (so just how far back does the fbi problem go?)


53 posted on 08/01/2019 5:17:06 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: Rio; All

So people excising the 1st Amendment Right to question certified known liars is now “domestic terrorism”?

Oh but what Antifa does is not domestic terror.

Then again yhe FBI now wants 2 years to turn over Page-Strzok docs. So the FISA declassify will not happen.

Yeah that want the delay in order to steal the election and then will delay indefinitel

So let me get this straight, Hillary, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strok, Page and the swamp all get a pass. But Hillary can pay some idiot to cook some crap up on Trump, and harass him for the last 3 years. Had my fill of double standards of “equal justice” under the law.”


54 posted on 08/01/2019 5:40:36 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Rio; All

So people excising the 1st Amendment Right to question certified known liars is now “domestic terrorism”?

Oh but what Antifa does is not domestic terror.

Then again yhe FBI now wants 2 years to turn over Page-Strzok docs. So the FISA declassify will not happen.

Yeah that want the delay in order to steal the election and then will delay indefinitely

So let me get this straight, Hillary, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strok, Page and the swamp all get a pass. But Hillary can pay some idiot to cook some crap up on Trump, and harass him for the last 3 years. Had my fill of double standards of “equal justice” under the law.”


55 posted on 08/01/2019 5:40:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: FreeReign
Do you really think Trump is on board with the FBI warning that conspiracy theorists are terrorists?

As a follow-up comment, it's being reported by attendees that Trump's security is barring people from bringing in Q t-shirts and posters to the tonight's rally, although some are trying to smuggle shirts in. So yes, I do think that Trump does not care for Q being around him, and I do think he's fine with the FBI's assessments - I don't see him on twitter stating a difference of opinion.
56 posted on 08/01/2019 5:47:25 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: romanesq
Does anyone believe today that US intel needs to post on the rancid 8Chan website known for porn and child porn?

Amen. Far too many people are letting themselves be tricked by pranksters from those filthy sites.
57 posted on 08/01/2019 5:49:49 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: SecAmndmt

George Bush, CIA Director, became president.

Bill Barr, CIA recruit, became his AG.


58 posted on 08/01/2019 6:01:32 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Rio

Here is a global conspiracy the FIB will not address:

Mohammedanism.


59 posted on 08/01/2019 6:02:14 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: null and void

Hmmm


60 posted on 08/01/2019 6:15:23 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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