Biden Admin used Jan. 6 to artificially inflate domestic terrorism threat, declassified intel shows

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Newly declassified intelligence now shows that most of the reported rise in the number of domestic terrorism cases  — cited by the Biden administration as a basis for instituting a sweeping expansion in federal law enforcement — was actually tied to one single event that tipped the scales in their favor: the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021.

The artificial inflation of the domestic terrorism threat was revealed in newly-declassified intelligence records from early 2022 made public by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard earlier this year. 

The declassified “Special Analysis” report by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies from February 2022 revealed that “61 percent” of all alleged domestic terrorism-related cases being investigated by the FBI at the time were related to the Capitol riot, and that “78 percent” of arrests allegedly tied to domestic terrorism in 2021 in fact stemmed from the singular riot in early January 2021.

The Biden administration had long been accused by conservatives and civil libertariansof dodging reality for four years, and he and his party made as much political capital as possible out of the riot, calling it "an insurrection" and a horrific event of domestic terrorism. Thus, the administrative apparatus sought to increase its authority and police powers to pursue domestic terrorists more aggressively. 

At the same time that argument was being made, neither Biden nor his subordinates told the public just how overweighted the riot was in their data.

The until-recently-classified document was put together in early 2022 by the “Joint Analytic Cell on Domestic Violent Extremism” run by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The document was declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in late April.
The revelation was found in a subsection on “Fatal Domestic Violent Extremist Attacks and FBI Investigations” despite the fact that, contrary to the repeated claims of many Democrats, the Capitol rioters did not kill anyone.