Thread by @America1stLegal

/1🚨BREAKING — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified the Biden Administration’s top-secret surveillance and censorship strategy — exposing a chilling plan to weaponize the intelligence apparatus against the American people.

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/2 On April 2, AFL formally urged @DNIGabbard to declassify the Biden Administration’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy — a top-secret plan AFL uncovered through litigation against the Department of Homeland Security.

https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1908299811603788124

@DNIGabbard /3 This week, in direct response to AFL’s request, DNI Gabbard declassified and released the Biden Administration’s top-secret surveillance and censorship strategy.

https://twitter.com/dnigabbard/status/1912647067807232372

@DNIGabbard /4 This thread breaks down the Biden Administration’s once-classified plan to surveil Americans and censor free speech in the United States.

@DNIGabbard /5 In 2021, without any evidence, the Biden Administration declared that the greatest threat to Americans was “right-wing domestic terrorism” from supporters of President Trump.

https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1804115251513753885

/6 The Biden Administration’s classified surveillance strategy directed the State Department, FBI, DOJ, and CIA to “obtain from foreign partners foreign intelligence and information related to U.S.-based violent extremism.”

In other words, the Biden Administration planned to outsource surveillance of Americans to foreign governments.

/7 As a subset of that strategic goal, the Biden Administration asked the FBI, CIA, DHS, and the State Department to study how disinformation relates to the “domestic terrorism threat” — connecting the whole-of-society censorship program to the national security and intelligence apparatus.

@DNIGabbard /8 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy pushed for “information sharing across all levels,” including with “state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement partners.”

@DNIGabbard /9 The left supports maximum information sharing with law enforcement to label conservatives as domestic terrorists…

But if a local sheriff wants to work with ICE to turn over a murderous illegal alien, communication is prohibited because of “sanctuary” policies.

/10 The classified censorship and surveillance strategy also calls for funding for “digital literacy programming.”

Despite the domestic scope of this plan, the Biden Administration tapped the State Department and USAID to produce “digital literacy programming” to “combat misinformation” online.

@DNIGabbard /11 As @MikeBenzCyber has shown, “digital literacy” is when organizations — such as NewsGuard — approve certain publications as “trustworthy” and then suppress “non-trustworthy” sources as “misinformation.”

https://twitter.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1701787355781218697

/12 This classified strategy contains numerous parallels to documents from AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries, including the revelation that the “intelligence experts” group, led by John Brennan and James Clapper, suggested that DHS use people’s military and religious affiliations as indicators that they could be domestic terrorists.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /13 The left tried to use this same tactic to smear now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, before his confirmation, suggesting he could be a white supremacist for having a tattoo of a cross.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /14 On the left is an excerpt from the classified plan from 2021.

On the right is an excerpt from the DHS meeting minutes from 2023.

They are the same playbook.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /15 The Biden Administration’s classified surveillance plan also appears to be the beginning of its push to label all domestic terrorists as “right wing” and threats to “public health.”

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /16 Two years later, in a DHS “intelligence experts” group meeting, an unidentified member said this public health reclassification was important, so that mothers and teachers would feel more comfortable turning in their kids to authorities.

https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1803872987264782770

/17 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy makes clear that the administration meant it when it said this was a “whole-of-government approach.”

The same concepts and buzzwords throughout this implementation plan are used repeatedly in documents from the DHS “intelligence experts” group, which AFL sued and successfully disbanded.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /18 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy outlines a plan to “share transnational approaches, good practices, and lessons learned” with “multilateral” meetings and “foreign government[s].”

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /19 AFL exposed that the Biden Administration hosted the UK Government’s “Counter Disinformation Unit” in 2021 to share its recommendations to censor speech with the White House during a meeting with the National Security Council.

https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1834574025613336653

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /20 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy also emphasizes the importance of “increasing faith in democracy and the government,” another recurring theme in documents released in AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /21 Two years later, Brennan and Clapper’s “intelligence experts” group discussed how DHS could “quietly make democracy work” and use covert messaging campaigns to get the American public to feel certain ways about issues.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /22 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance plan also calls for maximum law enforcement action against domestic terrorism crimes.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /23 Domestic terrorists — like those setting fire to Tesla dealerships, burning governors’ mansions, and engaging in political violence — should absolutely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /24 This top-secret plan was created by the same administration that released the infamous October 4 DOJ memo labeling concerned parents at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.”

https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1842226444887371897

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /25 The same administration that labeled Trump supporters as domestic terrorists — while turning a blind eye to pro-Hamas vandals and rioters in cities and on college campuses across the country, actively spewing hatred, engaging in violence, and supporting actual terrorists.

https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1783587214888239265

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /26 The Biden Administration weaponized the entire intelligence apparatus — the NSC, ODNI, CIA, FBI, DOJ, and the State Department — to target, censor, and silence the very people it was responsible for protecting.

@DNIGabbard @MikeBenzCyber /27 AFL will continue fighting to expose and dismantle the left’s weaponization of our intelligence community against the American people.