Mon Sep 19, 2022 – 9:30 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration is pressuring FBI agents to find crimes that justify U.S. President Joe Biden’s characterization of conservatives as domestic terrorists, current and former members of the bureau told The Washington Times on Thursday.
The alleged pressure comes as Biden has ramped up his belligerent rhetoric against so-called “MAGA Republicans” ahead of the crucial 2022 midterm elections, effectively characterizing half of the nation as threats to “the very foundations of our republic.”
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“We are sort of the lapdogs as the actual agents doing these sorts of investigations, trying to find a crime to fit otherwise First Amendment-protected activities,” an agent who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Times, listing a series of attributes associated with conservatives that he said could garner FBI scrutiny.
“If they have a Gadsden flag and they own guns and they are mean at school board meetings, that’s probably a domestic terrorist,” he said.
The agent also told the outlet that top FBI officials’ “demand for [w]hite
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