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 “organized effort” to target social media and news companies that reported on the Hunter Biden laptop story—which exposed the Biden family’s foreign business dealings—in 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.”
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 “domestic violent extremists” those “who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States.” The report links extremism to “sociopolitical 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 violence”.
Moreover, in August 2021, DHS released a ‘National Terrorism Advisory System’ (NTAS) bulletin stating that “opposition to COVID measures” qualifies as a “potential terror threat.” NBC News reported that even a “grievance” qualifies as a “terror threat.”
Critics said the advisory signifies how the Biden administration “has weaponized the Dept of Homeland Sec for the purposes of political persecution & intends to prosecute people as ‘terrorists’ for exercising their first amendment rights.”
