Newly released documents show that former President Joe Biden’s administration labeled critics who opposed any of the COVID mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists,” a designation usually saved for militias.
In a new report from Catherine Herridge, recently declassified intelligence documents reveal that Biden’s administration was so determined to force mask and vaccine mandates that it was willing to crush Americans’ First Amendment rights to silence any opposition. It is just more proof that you can’t hate them enough.
The report is titled “NEW: Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As ‘Domestic Violent Extremists.’”
Herridge posted a portion of her report on X that read:
Newly Released Documents Show The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism.
The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists,” or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public @shellenberger @galexybrane and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an ‘articulable purpose’ for FBI or other government agents to open an ‘assessment’ of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent.
The report, which the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has declassified, claims that “anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists,” specifically militias, “characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach.” A sweeping range of COVID narratives “‘have resonated” with DVEs “motivated by QAnon.”
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, “DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.”