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Biden Intel Community Breaches Authority to Target the Right

Instead of prioritizing resources to confront the menace posed by America’s foreign adversaries the IC is devoting most of its time to pursuing Americans on the political Right @julie_kelly2 amgreatness.com/2021/04/15/bid…

“Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, perfected as a trusted aide to Barack Obama has her fingerprints all over the fabricated Trump-Russia collusion storyline.

As part of John Brennan’s inner circle, Haines at least knew of—if she did not partially approve—the unleashing of insidious government surveillance tools against Trump and his campaign.

“Domestically, lone actors and small cells with a broad range of ideological motivations pose a greater immediate threat” than ISIS and al-Qaeda, Haines said in her opening statement to the committee.

“We see this threat manifest itself in individuals who…commit terrorist acts for ideological goals stemming from other influences, such as racial bias and antigovernment sentiment, which we refer to as Domestic Violent Extremism or DVE.

DVE is an increasingly complex threat that is growing in the United States.”

Instead of prioritizing resources to confront the menace posed by America’s foreign adversaries, which is her job, Haines is devoting most of her time to pursuing Americans on the political Right.

Her first official missive as Biden’s DNI didn’t raise alarm over China or North Korea or Iran—it warned that Americans represent a “heightened threat” to the homeland this year.

“Newer sociopolitical developments—such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic...

and conspiracy theories promoting violence—will almost certainly spur some DVEs to try to engage in violence this year,” Haines claimed in her March report.

“Domestic violent extremists are U.S.-based actors who conduct or threaten activities that are dangerous to human life in violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any state; appearing to be intended to intimate or coerce a civilian population; . . .

or affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”

That terrifying scale of violence, Haines suggested, could come from those involved in the January 6 protests on Capitol Hill.

Haines even included a sketch of the Capitol building in her report. (In a recent NPR interview, Haines referred to the events of that day as an “assault on our own democracy.”)

But there is a major problem with Haines’ alert; she clearly exceeded the boundaries of her authority.

Haines’ definition of a DVE, per her report, is “an individual based and operating primarily in the United States without direction or inspiration from a foreign terrorist group or other foreign power.”

Haines’ purview, however, is solely vested in gathering intelligence related to bad actors allied with hostile regimes beyond our shores, not Trump-supporting veterans from Virginia.”