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Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat
Jana Winter
Yahoo NewsAugust 1, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT
FBI designates [snipped] and QAnon conspiracy-based theories as domestic threats. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Michael E. Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images, Matt Rourke/AP, AP)More
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.
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originally posted by: dashen
Time to pack it up lads and ladies
. we are officially on the $#!+list.
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