"It's a pretty damn dangerous document," former FBI agent Michael Feinberg, who is now a senior editor at Lawfare, said of Bondi's memorandum. "It's dangerous in the sense that it is directed at a specific ideology, namely the left, without offering much evidence as to why that is necessary. And it's also dangerous in the sense that it's ignoring the lion's share of nihilistic violent extremists." Such acts, which the FBI categorizes as being motivated not by political ideology but by a hatred for society at large, constituted a "large chunk" of current domestic terrorism investigations, FBI Director Kash Patel tolda Senate committee in September. …
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is not convinced. "It is a throwback to McCarthyism and the worst abuses of Hoover's FBI to use federal law enforcement against Americans purely because of their political beliefs or because they disagree with the current president's politics," he said in a statement to The Post…
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