Gabbard: Biden 'weaponized' government against citizens

FPI / April 21, 2025

Seeing is believing. Team Biden's grand strategy has been moved out of the shadows and into the light of day.

As part of its plan to go after those it characterized as "domestic terrorists," the Biden-Harris Administration called for increased information-sharing with Big Tech, legislation to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and measures to study what it termed "extremism" in the military, according to the strategy declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday.

America First Legal 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.' "

Gabbard wrote on X on April 5 in response to the letter: “We are already on this, and look forward to declassifying this and other instances of the government being weaponized against Americans,” vowing to “bring transparency and accountability to end the weaponization of our intelligence community.”

Even the leftist ACLU said the strategy "reflects the government’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."

The strategy, formulated in the weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol, 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 strategy can be read here.)

The strategy also called for advancing "inclusion" in the Covid response and addressing "hate crime reporting barriers faced by disadvantaged communities by promoting law enforcement training and resources to prevent and address bias-motivated crimes; improve federal hate crimes data and analysis to eliminate hate crimes underreporting; mitigate xenophobia and bias."

The strategy also tasked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to crack down on “ghost guns,” or un-serialized, privately made firearms.

The Second Amendment group Gun Owners of America slammed the document, deeming it “Biden’s secret plan to eliminate the Second Amendment in the name of ‘counterterrorism.' ”

Gabbard revealed in September of last year that she was targeted by the Biden-Harris Administration for surveillance under the Transportation Security Administration Quiet Skies terrorist watch program.

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