Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released yet more evidence exposing how far the Biden administration went to target critics of its COVID-19 mandates.
Gabbard declassified two internal DNI reports revealing that the government labeled vocal critics of pandemic-related orders as “domestic violent extremists,” or DVEs. She warned that such labeling often led to government-directed social media censorship, FBI investigations and surveillance.
“This is a classic ploy to politicize intelligence and the national security state against the American people, undermining our Constitutionally-guaranteed [sic] rights and freedoms,” Gabbard wrote Wednesday on X, less than one week after journalists Michael Shelleneberger, Catherine Herridge and Alex Gutentag published the reports.
Gabbard’s comments, in addition to the declassified reports, back up prior findings from MRC Free Speech America in its report that identified at least 57 Biden-era censorship initiatives. One such program—Initiative #36, “The Fake Domestic Terror Threat”—used intelligence agencies, including the FBI, to hype nonexistent right-wing terror threats. These bogus probes fueled fake expert reports that triggered “very real enforcement actions,” including censorship.
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As Director of National Intelligence, I promised to root out and expose the politicization of intelligence.
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) May 29, 2025
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The declassified documents show how the Biden administration put this practice into action. The DNI’s National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI assessed on Dec. 13, 2021, that some “domestic violent extremists” and their “foreign analogues” would “threaten or mobilize to violence in opposition to new or expanding COVID-19-related mandates.”
Then came the kicker: the report conceded that only “some” of the supposed threats may have amounted to criminal acts, while many of the others constituted “the exercise of rights protected by the US Constitution.”
One example of such an alleged threat was that of a person who merely “suggested” online that medical workers pushing the COVID-19 vaccine on children were a “legitimate target.” One of the reports speculated that so-called domestic violent extremists “might” mobilize in response to job losses over vaccine refusal.
The language was consistently vague and speculative throughout the documents. One report guessed that COVID-19 mandates “will probably” spur violence. Another assumed pandemic mandates “will probably” inspire attacks against the government.
Gabbard’s move appears to be part of a broader effort to dismantle Biden-era censorship campaigns, particularly those run through the intelligence agencies.
In April, she declassified a “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” which revealed plans to involve both government agencies and private companies in combating so-called “disinformation” about domestic terror threats. That plan included coordination with Big Tech.
As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) April 16, 2025
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