more
What's remarkable about the document is that it's an explicitly ideological vision. Its scope extends far beyond criminal violence—it encompasses online speech, education, gun control, even election participation.It's a strategy to suppress not just individuals, but IDEAS.
The plan lays out a four-pillar strategy:1) Understand and Share DT-Related Information2) Prevent DT Recruitment and Mobilization to Violence3) Disrupt and Deter DT Activity4) Confront Long-Term Contributors to DTThat's a lot of jargon. Here's what it actually means.
Pillar One is information-sharing—that's the "whole-of-government" strategy in practice. They wanted every arm of the government to be a partner in this.Remember, when this document refers to "domestic terrorism" (DT), we know what they mean—because they publicly told us:
Pillar Two is preventing "recruitment" and "mobilization." In practice, this meant mobilizing the security state to censor and suppress right-wingers.We know this, because it was detailed in the thousands of pages of documents we unearthed when I sued the Biden admin in 2021.
The plan lays out the roadmap for how the Biden administration would partner with powerful "third-party" actors—Big Tech, left-wing NGOs, anti-"hate" groups, etc—to implement this censorship regime.I explained exactly how that system worked here:
Pillar Three is about transforming the mission of the security state to place a higher priority on prosecuting "domestic terrorism," and pushing for expanded power to pursue that agenda.And that's what they did. In Biden's first year, the FBI more than doubled its DT caseload.
Once again, we know what "DT" meant, because we saw it in practice. Pro-life activists, parents, traditional Catholics, conservatives in the military—all were targets.The plan goes so far as to discuss putting Americans with no ties to foreign terrorism on terror watchlists:
Pillar Four is just openly advocating for the entire federal government to become a vehicle for leftism. It calls for funding "civics education" to teach "action civics" (read: left-wing activism) and wielding law enforcement to "mitigate xenophobia and bias" in COVID policy.
Finally, as you can see above, it calls for a ban on "assault weapons and high-capacity magazines."Once again, this was a preview of how they would operate—the Biden admin regularly used the specter of "domestic terror" as a pretext to push for crackdowns on gun rights.
When it dropped in 2021, the public version of this "domestic terrorism" plan generated a huge backlash. It was the first time in U.S. history that a president had ever come out with a national plan to combat "domestic terrorism."Even the hard-left ACLU came out against it.
But the private, internal one is worse. It's specific, direct, and doesn't hide behind vague, sweeping generalities.When read in light of everything the Biden administration went on to do, their overarching goals are crystal clear.
We can never let this happen again. End