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LEOs starting to focus on Antifa - but no help from FBI: ‘the FBI has not had a meaningful domestic coun
2020-06-04
Posted by:Lex

#7  #6 "Work in" or "Are employed by"?
Posted by: charger   2020-06-04 23:47  

#6  How many people work in the FBI?
Posted by: KBK   2020-06-04 23:22  

#5  #1 yeah, understood - sorry it's a sprawling roundup article by Bill Gertz and three others that's tough to summarize.

I guess the key passage is this one that closes the piece with a quote from a former FBI honcho under W:


The FBI, which is in charge of countering domestic security threats posed by foreign intelligence services or domestic terrorists, has largely avoided focusing on Antifa. A search of the FBI website produces no results for Antifa.

The FBI investigated three Antifa activists suspected of beating a Unite the Right protester in Charlottesville three years ago, but no charges were brought.

Kenneth deGraffenreid, who was deputy national counterintelligence executive during the George W. Bush administration, said the FBI has not been engaged in effective domestic counterintelligence for years.

“The FBI has not had a meaningful domestic counterintelligence capability for many years,” Mr. deGraffenreid said. “They’ve been distracted or politically corrupted.”

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.
Posted by: Lex   2020-06-04 20:05  

#4  Every cop knows any time he hauls in a antifa asshole he will probably get ripped up one side and down the other for grabbing some feeb's CI.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-04 19:32  

#3  I don't think most antifa are the family type.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-04 18:55  

#2  Dress up in anti-riot gear and look scary. Seems to be the official response these days. Meanwhile don't worry about you wife and kids you left at home to fend for themselves.
Posted by: jpal   2020-06-04 18:52  

#1  Ah'm lost on this one.
Here's your link.

EXCLUSIVE: Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months, law enforcement official says
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-06-04 18:37  

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