The "anti-Trump" FBI

Trump would have you believe the FBI is out to get him.  Ask him to explain this.

THE YOUNG WOMAN with long pink hair claimed to be from Washington state. One day during the summer of 2020, she walked into the Chinook Center, a community space for left-wing activists in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and offered to volunteer.

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The pink-haired woman said her name was Chelsie.

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But Chelsie’s identity was as fake as her long pink hair. The young woman, whose real name is April Rogers, is a detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department. The FBI enlisted her to infiltrate and spy on racial justice groups during the summer of 2020.

The work of Rogers, or “Chelsie,” is a direct offshoot of the FBI’s summer of 2020 investigation in Denver, where Mickey Windecker, a paid FBI informant, drove a silver hearse, rose to a leadership role in the racial justice movement, and encouraged activists to become violent. Windecker provided information to the FBI about an activist who attended demonstrations in both Denver and Colorado Springs, prompting federal agents to launch a new investigation in the smaller Colorado city.

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Once Rogers gained trust among the activists, she tried to set up at least two young men in gun-running conspiracies. Her tactics mirrored those of Windecker, who tried to entrap two Denver racial justice activists in crimes, including an FBI-engineered plot to assassinate Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser that went nowhere.

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When called as a witness in a state court hearing, [Rogers] testified that the Justice Department instructed her not to answer questions about the FBI investigation. “I’ve been told to respond, ‘I respectfully decline to answer,’” Rogers said under oath.

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“It is a clear abuse of authority for the FBI to use undercover agents, informants, and local law enforcement to spy on and entrap people engaged in peaceful First Amendment-protected activities without any evidence of criminal activity or violent intent[,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., told The Intercept.]

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FBI [also] monitored social media activity, including Twitter posts and Facebook event pages, of racial justice activists in Washington, D.C., and Seattle.

  The Intercept

And who's going to stop them?

As federal agents investigated political activists [ini Colorado Springs], they also launched, and promptly dropped, an investigation of a man running a neo-Nazi website — a decision that would have deadly consequences.

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“The red flag is significant in that it is a radical political symbol, and designates the march … as revolutionary and radical in nature,” [a Colorado Springs detective assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Daniel Summey, writing up a search warrant application to apprehend a demonstrator], basing his claim on [a] website about red flags, which notes that “the red flag has, predominantly, become a symbol of socialism and communism.”

Summey’s application suggested that the FBI was using political ideology as a basis for investigation, which is against the bureau’s stated policy. “We don’t investigate ideology,” the FBI’s Director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee in 2019.

Right.

Listen to the Windecker story at Alphabet Boys, and check out this Intercept report about the FBI's Social Media Exploitation [SOMEX], "a program federal agents used to monitor racial justice activists nationwide."

.....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.