Docs Reveal Much Ado About ‘Domestic Terrorism’ During the Biden Administration

By Timothy Furnish Published on May 2, 2025

Several weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified and released the Biden administration’s “Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) for Countering Domestic Terrorism.”

This document guided Biden officials, across the board, in their attempts to achieve the administration’s goals against “domestic terrorism.” Considering how they defined the latter, it would have served, in effect, as a roadmap leading directly to Stalinist tyranny in America — if it hadn’t been canceled by President Donald Trump’s reelection in November.

Before delving into that odious piece of business, however, let’s review the other repressive steps Biden’s far-Left apparatchiks took the liberty of implementing while he was asleep at the wheel

CISA: the Tip of the Propaganda Spear

During the COVID pandemic, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) smeared tens of millions of Americans as pariahs and potential traitors for questioning the official government narrative on the disease. Those trusting in their natural immunity and daring to doubt the efficacy and safety of the vaccines were castigated. This became the template for the entire government.

Pay No Attention to the Jihadists Behind the Curtain

Despite overwhelming data that Islamic terrorism is a far greater threat, Biden and the Congress led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted that counterterrorism efforts should focus on “racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (RMVE) — almost entirely white people. This narrative was enshrined in Biden’s 2021 “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” given sharper teeth (and an even more forked tongue) the following year via a new “domestic terrorism unit” empowered specifically to fight those alleged legions of KKK members constantly patrolling our streets.

We’re All “Semi-Fascist” Now

Ultimately, the entire federal intelligence and law enforcement communities were weaponized against our own citizens. (But of course Biden’s spies and gumshoes hate us — the president himself referred to millions of American voters as “semi-fascists.” Is that someone with only half a bad moustache? At least we MAGA conservatives aren’t full-blown Hitlerian — although our Republican nominees always are, according to the Democrats and the media. The former are still trotting old Adolph out — they just can’t help themselves.) Little wonder, then, that Biden’s Department of Justice and FBI surveilled Catholics attending Latin Masses and parents criticizing DEI at school board meetings, while also gearing up to do the same to Orthodox churches in America.

Just What Is “Domestic Terrorism?”

All of these policies had their origins in the SIP that Gabbard unveiled. Nowhere therein is “domestic terrorism” (DT) defined. But according to 18 USC § 2331 (5), it consists of “activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State” and “appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” or “to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion,” or “to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.” Such acts must also “occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”

The Biden SIP took a very expansive view of many of those terms — particularly the phrase “appear to be intended to intimidate.”

How Did the Biden Administration Hate Us? Let Us Count the Ways

More specifically, here are the document’s most problematic aspects:

Get “DT-related analysis and information from non-governmental experts.” As I pointed out in exposing CISA’s aforementioned propaganda, the Biden administration only used “experts” from the far-Left side of the political spectrum — ones ready to tell Democrats what their itching ears want to hear: that white guys with MAGA hats driving Ford F-150s are the greatest DT threat. You can be sure they wouldn’t consult someone like yours truly, who sees it a bit differently, on this matter.
“Provide resources” to other law enforcement agencies about “relevant iconography, symbology, and phraseology used by many domestic terrorists.” Those included, according to Biden’s FBI, the Gadsden and Betsy Ross flags — but not those festooned with the shahadah.
Ramp up the intelligence community’s resources for dealing with the alleged RMVE danger. As noted above, during Biden’s tenure the only RMVEs adduced were “white nationalist/supremacists,” a classical attempt to demonize his political enemies. (Another reason why Election Day 2024 proved so traumatic for Democrats.) What about Islam’s teachings that all non-Muslims are inferior beings? No, that wasn’t worth examining.
Redouble efforts to understand the relationship between “disinformation” and DT. Remember Biden’s Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board,” which was supposed to protect us all from (right-wing) lies? Thank God it only lasted four months. It’s amazing, the hubris of the side which tried to sell the nation on Russia collusion, face masks, and “the best Biden ever” having the gall to tell the rest of us what truth is.
“Share transnational approaches … on preventing and countering RMVE across borders” and also working on “inclusion of women, girls and youth….” This meant roping in such “transnational approaches” as the UK arresting people for thought crimes and similar legislation proposed in Canada (which the newly elected Liberal Party will likely resurrect). It’s unclear what Biden’s staffers meant by invoking females, which is ironic considering Democrat politicians still can’t seem to define what a “woman” is.
“Highlight Federal resources and partnerships related to DI” via “public engagements, press engagements” and “targeted advertising campaigns.” That’s just fancy language for using propaganda, pure and simple — as if Democrats didn’t already get favorable coverage from almost all media and online aggregators.
“Enhance public understanding of the role of Federal law enforcement in responding to … concerning non-criminal behavior.” What sort of non-crimes requiring federal intervention might that entail? Buying unregulated lobster tails? That, as well as refusing the COVID vaccine, raising a stink at PTA meetings, attending Latin Mass, or praying outside an abortion clinic.
Several sections of this document appear to attempt to conflate “concerning non-criminal behavior” with mental health issues and imply that folks in these categories might “pose a threat” of DT and so need to be headed off at the pass. This necessitates “public health-focused prevention … along various points of the terrorism lifecycle.” No matter that studies show “the correlation between mental disorders and terrorism is weak” at best. And that Islamic terrorists, by far the most prevalent type in the world, are almost always quite sane.
“Develop awareness training for active-duty military, DOD employees, and contractors” on the alleged DT threat. But this was already going on during the Obama administration, when Catholics, evangelical Christians, and Orthodox Jews were deemed “extremists” on the order of al-Qai’dah. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in his confirmation hearings that he would bring these witch hunts to an end, although he hasn’t formally done so yet. The SIP also called for investigating whether the Uniform Code of Military Justice needed to be amended to address “violent extremism,” but this was not implemented.
Here’s an actual good idea from this SIP: work on “curbing in-prison radicalization.” But undoubtedly, this didn’t include the fastest-growing religion in US prisons, the one that produces most of the world’s terrorists: Islam.
Big Brother squared and cubed, anyone? “Share with relevant technology and other private-industry companies … relevant information on DT-related and associated transnational terrorist online content….” As if Big Tech didn’t already have way too much info about all of us, even if many of those firms’ CEOs have been kissing up to President Trump since January.
Join up with “multilateral” entities, such as the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact and the Christchurch Call to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online. The former is just as vapid and addled as you’d expect, chalking terrorism up to poverty and the lack of human rights; the latter was set up after the 2019 right-wing murders at mosques in New Zealand, and (of course) lumps all “violent extremism” into one category. One also wonders why they didn’t set up shop in the wake of, say, the much larger mass murders of 9/11. (Actually, it’s not a wonder at all, considering who the perps were in that case — Islamic terrorists).
Consider including “known and suspected [emphasis added] terrorists” in the government’s Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment” (TIDE) and the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). This would lump DT perps and mere suspects into the same tranche as verified international terrorists. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? This helps explain why folks who peacefully marched through open Capitol doors and merely milled about the building on January 6, 2021 were treated as if they were budding Bin Ladins.
Screen federal job applicants for potential DT threats. When I applied for my security clearance to work at US Special Operations Command, I had to take an oath that I had not belonged to the Communist Party or any group dedicated to overthrowing the government. Biden’s strictures might well have expanded those forbidden affiliations to VFWs, Orthodox churches, or NASCAR events. And I am not kidding.
Try again to criminalize guns by “banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” This despite the courts consistently striking down such laws.
“Implement the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act to address hate crime reporting barriers faced by disadvantaged communities.” That bit of useless legislation, addressing a problem that did not exist, was passed by Pelosi’s House in early 2020. Democrats just so detested President Trump and others calling the virus that came out of Wuhan, China, the “China virus” that they had to pass a law making it a “hate crime” to do so. And this Biden document attempted to instill this delusion into federal policy.

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Thank God POTUS 45 also became 47, and cast the policies based on this Stalinist missive into the fire. And thanks, also, to Gabbard for letting the American people know of it.

Trump and his administration continue the task of cleaning the massively befouled Augean stables which Biden and his cronies left behind. Alas, it’s taking the Trump people more than the one day it took Hercules to do the same. But they’re getting it done, and deserve our support as they continue to dig our government out of its odorous pit.

Timothy Furnish has a PhD from Ohio State in Islamic, World & African history. He’s been an Arabic interrogator in the 101st Airborne, a US Special Operations Command analyst, an author and professor. Furnish is the military/security affairs writer for The Stream.