/2 On April 2, AFL formally urged @DNIGabbard to declassify the Biden Administration’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy — a top-secret plan AFL uncovered through litigation against the Department of Homeland Security. https://t.co/YeWBY7YpBP
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/4 This thread breaks down the Biden Administration’s once-classified plan to surveil Americans and censor free speech in the United States.
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/6 The Biden Administration’s classified surveillance strategy directed the State Department, FBI, DOJ, and CIA to “obtain from foreign partners foreign intelligence and information related to U.S.-based violent extremism.”
In other words, the Biden Administration planned to… pic.twitter.com/3HEDiT72xk
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/8 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy pushed for “information sharing across all levels,” including with “state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement partners.” pic.twitter.com/Jo3EY7I3RG
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/10 The classified censorship and surveillance strategy also calls for funding for “digital literacy programming.”
Despite the domestic scope of this plan, the Biden Administration tapped the State Department and USAID to produce “digital literacy programming” to “combat… pic.twitter.com/9dXbLQAIhR
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/12 This classified strategy contains numerous parallels to documents from AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries, including the revelation that the “intelligence experts” group, led by John Brennan and James Clapper, suggested that DHS use people’s military and religious affiliations as… https://t.co/gMwfk7T4dN
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/14 On the left is an excerpt from the classified plan from 2021.
On the right is an excerpt from the DHS meeting minutes from 2023.
They are the same playbook. pic.twitter.com/wj4cEzrRDJ
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/16 Two years later, in a DHS “intelligence experts” group meeting, an unidentified member said this public health reclassification was important, so that mothers and teachers would feel more comfortable turning in their kids to authorities. https://t.co/YdTr92dPRm
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/18 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy outlines a plan to “share transnational approaches, good practices, and lessons learned” with “multilateral” meetings and “foreign government[s].” pic.twitter.com/4ve0Ei2THu
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/20 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance strategy also emphasizes the importance of “increasing faith in democracy and the government,” another recurring theme in documents released in AFL’s #DeepStateDiaries. pic.twitter.com/PnFFyIT3zH
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 18, 2025
/22 The Biden Administration’s classified censorship and surveillance plan also calls for maximum law enforcement action against domestic terrorism crimes. pic.twitter.com/OEtvzkAzAa
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/24 This top-secret plan was created by the same administration that released the infamous October 4 DOJ memo labeling concerned parents at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.” https://t.co/U5NlInqB1T
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/26 The Biden Administration weaponized the entire intelligence apparatus — the NSC, ODNI, CIA, FBI, DOJ, and the State Department — to target, censor, and silence the very people it was responsible for protecting.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 18, 2025