… and a further development. Check out Pam Bondi’s newest memo:
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Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.
December 18 at 5:00 AM 2025
By Eva Dou, Joseph Menn and Will Oremus
The Trump administration is embarking on an expansive effort to root out what it sees as rampant left-wing domestic terrorism, raising concerns among some security experts and lawmakers that broad categories of Americans’ political speech could come under surveillance.
Thursday marks a first deadline, set this month in a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi, for all federal law enforcement agencies to “coordinate delivery” of their intelligence files on “Antifa” and “Antifa-related” activities to the FBI. Bondi has tasked the agency with using those files to draw up lists of Americans and foreigners to investigate as part of a campaign directed by President Donald Trump against what his administration views as a growing threat of political violence by the American left.
“Left-wing organizations have fueled violent riots, organized attacks against law enforcement officers, coordinated illegal doxing campaigns, arranged drop points for weapons and riot materials, and more,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a written statement. “The Trump Administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities.”
Critics warn that the plan signals an impending crackdown on political dissent under the banner of counterterrorism — one that could land large numbers of liberal activists on government watch lists and chill Americans’ First Amendment right to protest the administration’s policies.
Bondi’s Dec. 4 memorandum, which was first reported by journalist Ken Klippenstein and later confirmed by the Justice Department to The Washington Post, listed “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” “anti-Christianity,” “opposition to law and immigration enforcement,” “radical gender ideology,” and “hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality” as some of the political agendas espoused by the individuals who might merit investigation.
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“It’s a pretty damn dangerous document,” former FBI agent Michael Feinberg, who is now a senior editor at Lawfare, said of Bondi’s memorandum. “It’s dangerous in the sense that it is directed at a specific ideology, namely the left, without offering much evidence as to why that is necessary. And it’s also dangerous in the sense that it’s ignoring the lion’s share of nihilistic violent extremists.” Such acts, which the FBI categorizes as being motivated not by political ideology but by a hatred for society at large, constituted a “large chunk” of current domestic terrorism investigations, FBI Director Kash Patel told a Senate committee in September.
“We are committed to working with the Justice Department and our state, local, federal, and tribal law enforcement partners to protect the homeland, while at the same time safeguarding constitutional rights,” the FBI said in a statement.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is not convinced. “It is a throwback to McCarthyism and the worst abuses of Hoover’s FBI to use federal law enforcement against Americans purely because of their political beliefs or because they disagree with the current president’s politics,” he said in a statement to The Post.
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Conservative legal scholar John Yoo, who has supported some of Trump’s policies, said the approach could be appropriate if the FBI is careful. “Groups cannot use some First Amendment activity to claim a broad immunity from investigation that conceals potentially illegal activity,” Yoo told The Post. “Because the definition of an antifa organization may be unclear, the FBI should take extra pains to make sure it is not selecting targets because of their ideology.”
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