Declassified Biden plan provided a foundation for agencies to target conservatives

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Biden memo let feds target Americans for 'non-criminal behavior' before Catholics, parents probed
The now declassified strategic plan provided the foundation for Biden-era agencies to target conservatives, and anyone who appeared to resist or dissent from the Biden/Harris agenda.
By John Solomon and Steven Richards
May 6, 2025

The Biden administration authorized federal law enforcement four years ago to target Americans engaged in "concerning non-criminal behavior" in the name of fighting domestic terrorism, with a specific eye on those serving in the military, owning firearms, or spreading what officials considered to be "xenophobic" disinformation, according to newly declassified documents.

The stunning breadth of the mandate was disclosed when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently released a fully unredacted version of the prior administration’s "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism."

The June 2021 memo exposed for the first time the law enforcement and intelligence framework that led the FBI to monitor and probe conservative Catholics and parents who protested against some school board policies and justified Homeland Security to engage in censorship or debanking of Americans the administration considered to be potential enemies of the state.
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Weaponizing law enforcement against its own citizens
For decades, FBI agents have been required to meet stringent requirements for opening criminal and national security investigations known as a "predicate." The predicate for a full investigation required "an articulable factual basis" that "reasonably indicates" a crime or national security threat has or is about to occur, according to the Attorney General's Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations.

The Biden-era memo substantially lowered the standard to "concerning" behavior instead of criminality, potentially jeopardizing civil liberties and giving license to weaponize police powers against Americans who had different views than the governing administration on issues like the Second Amendment and COVID-19.

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a member of the House Judiciary Committee who played a critical role identifying FBI abuses in the now-discredited Russia collusion probe, said the memo amounted to "merely a broad brush to start spying on Americans."
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“Well, back in June 2021 the Biden administration put out its plan for dealing with domestic terrorists. The one that they put out at that time talked about how they were going after criminal activity. And of course, everybody, anybody who's espousing violence or trying to or committing violence, one wants the government to get a handle on that,” Lott told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday.

“What Tulsi Gabbard declassified was the rest of the document that was there, and what was shocking to me is that the types of tools and responses that they have been making for people who are engaged in some type of violence actually applied to non-violent individuals, non-criminal activity that was there,” Lott said.

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