Gabbard declassifies Biden counterterrorism strategy, confirms push for information-sharing with Big Tech

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a Biden-era plan to counter domestic terrorism that called for greater information-sharing with tech companies and a legislative push to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines Developed in after the Jan Capitol riot the plan outlined a government-wide effort to track how foreign actors use disinformation to radicalize Americans and urged coordination with private industry on domestic threats It also called for measures to curb in-prison radicalization and analysis extremism within the military Among its proposals was a plan to develop awareness training for ongoing arrangement military members DOD employees and contractors and those provision members separating or retiring from the military on the threat posed by domestic terrorism the promising targeting of those with military training by violent extremist actors and relevant reporting mechanisms TRUMP THREATENS IRAN OVER NUKES AS DNI GABBARD MAINTAINS TEHRAN IS NOT BUILDING BOMBSThe strategy had a four-part goal Understand and Share Domestic Terrorism-Related Information Prevent Domestic Terrorism Recruitment and Mobilization to Violence Disrupt and Deter Domestic Terrorism Activity and Confront Long-Term Contributors to Domestic Terrorism The Biden administration plan encouraged teaching and learning of civics teaching that provides students with the skill to fully participate in civic life and promoted literacy guidance for both children and adult learners and existing proven interventions to foster resiliency to disinformation It also called for advancing inclusion in the Covid- response and addressing hate crime reporting obstructions faced by disadvantaged communities by promoting law enforcement training and support to prevent and address bias-motivated crimes improve federal hate crimes figures and analysis to eliminate hate crimes underreporting mitigate xenophobia and bias DEMS WHO HAVE SPOKEN PASSIONATELY AGAINST DOMESTIC TERRORISM GO SILENT AS TESLA TORCHERS ARE CHARGEDFormer President Joe Biden's administration launched the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism in identifying domestic terrorism as a major national protection threat in the wake of the Capitol riot Gabbard declassified the strategy after prompting from conservative groups like America First Legal The group wrote to Gabbard earlier this month asking her to declassify the strategy amid concerns of weaponization of power by censoring disfavored speech on the Internet by labeling such speech misinformation disinformation hate speech domestic terrorism ' CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPBiden s summer counterterrorism strategy garnered criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union which noted it reflects the cabinet s ever-expanding authority to surveil and monitor American communities law enforcement guidance that permits profiling on the basis of race religion or national origin and the use of abusive tools such as the watchlisting system against people for constitutionally protected speech and association