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2020-06-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

LEOs starting to focus on Antifa - but no help from FBI: ‘the FBI has not had a meaningful domestic coun

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Posted by Lex 2020-06-04 17:31|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#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|| 2020-06-04 18:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-06-04 18:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think most antifa are the family type.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 18:55|| 2020-06-04 18:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-06-04 19:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-06-04 20:05|| Front Page Top

#6 How many people work in the FBI?

Posted by KBK 2020-06-04 23:22|| 2020-06-04 23:22|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 "Work in" or "Are employed by"?

Posted by charger 2020-06-04 23:47|| 2020-06-04 23:47|| Front Page Top

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