The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will receive a more than half a billion dollar raise, according to a summary of the bill provided by the House Appropriations Committee.
The FBI will be given “$11.33 billion, an increase of $569.6 million above fiscal year 2022 enacted level and $524 million above the President’s budget request,” the summary states.
The revelation comes after a recent report by journalist Michael Shellenberger showed the FBI made an âorganized effortâ to target social media and news companies that reported on the Hunter Biden laptop storyâwhich exposed the Biden family’s foreign business dealingsâin the lead-up to the 2020 election.
In “TWITTER FILES: PART 7,” Shellenberger presents “evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.â
The increased FBI funding will go towards “efforts to investigate extremist violence and domestic terrorism,” according to the committee’s summary.
The Biden administration has repeatedly linked notions like “extremism” and “terrorism” to individuals with opinions that differ from the mainstream, left-wing narrative.
In March of this year, for example, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Biden linked “extremism” with asking questions about election outcomes, questioning the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, and questioning the mainstream narrative about the January 6, 2021 unrest at the U.S. Capitol.
The agency released its ‘Report on Internal Review of Domestic Violent Extremism,’ which defined as âdomestic violent extremistsâ those âwho are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States.â The report links extremism to âsociopolitical developments” such as “narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violenceâ.
Moreover, in August 2021, DHS released a ‘National Terrorism Advisory System’ (NTAS) bulletin stating that âopposition to COVID measuresâ qualifies as a âpotential terror threat.â NBC News reported that even a âgrievanceâ qualifies as a âterror threat.â
Critics said the advisory signifies how the Biden administration âhas weaponized the Dept of Homeland Sec for the purposes of political persecution & intends to prosecute people as âterroristsâ for exercising their first amendment rights.â
