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This should surprise no one, but let it at least be a reminder: take security seriously.

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Last month, Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill that would designate antifa—the shorthand term for anti-fascist militants who the GOP has repeatedly attempted to portray as a structured organization rather than an ideology (by the FBI’s own assessment)—as a domestic terrorist group. The current appointee to run the National Counterterrorism Center, former Green Beret Joe Kent, has also urged the FBI to target “antifa and cartels” and employed a Proud Boy as a campaign consultant during his failed 2022 campaign for a House of Representatives seat in Washington state.

“Tier-one priorities are political, and as priorities are defined by the new administration, there’ll be an effort to remove the focus on extreme right-wing groups and delegitimize any effort to tackle them,” said Terry Albury, a former FBI agent who was sentenced to four years in federal prison for leaking internal bureau documents to journalists at The Intercept, in a conversation with me this month.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups