"Disband the FBI"? Call begins after bureau reports on white nationalist violence and plots

[ck4829]

Jim Hoft, founder of the far-right news blog The Gateway Pundit, called the Federal Bureau of Investigation a “disgrace” after it sent a memo warning that white supremacists posed the biggest threat of deadly violence at nationwide protests following a white Minneapolis Police officer killing George Floyd, a black man.

ABC News reports that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center issued an intelligence bulletin to local law enforcement warning that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists posed the “greatest threat of lethal violence” at protests across the country. The memo, ABC News reported, “makes only a limited mention of the left-leaning, loosely affiliated antifa movement, and appears to undercut recent criticisms of the movement by President Trump and top administration officials.” Anarchist extremists are mentioned in the memo, however, as the “most significant threat” against police officers and government property.

“WHAT A JOKE,” Hoft’s headline declared. In the accompanying article, Hoft repeatedly attacked the FBI and its director Christopher Wray, whom ​right-wing activists have publicly and privately pressured ​Trump to fire​ over the agency’s conduct during its investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser. Hoft only attacked Wray and the FBI, ignoring the other two agencies involved in the issuance of the bulletin.

“Maybe it’s time to disband the FBI,” Hoft stated. “It’s become a joke.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gateway-pundit-suggests-disbanding-fbi-after-it-reports-white-supremacist-threats/

The right wants to DISBAND THE FBI.

Say it a couple times.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. "easier said than done"

Only a fool on the hill would promote disbanding the so called law enforcement protecting his family.

Well, not the "only fool", there are those who prefer dishonor to death.

[gopiscrap]

2. please do

[BComplex]

3. Half of most police departments are MADE UP OF white supremacists!

White supremacists have intentionally infiltrated police departments.

WTF???


"the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center issued an intelligence bulletin to local law enforcement warning that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists posed the “greatest threat of lethal violence” at protests across the country."

So all they were doing was letting the white supremacists know that they have their number?

[stillcool]

4. I think they've wanted that for a while...

they don't cotton to outsiders messing in their policing.