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The attack on our democracy must be investigated to prevent history from repeating itself.

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In mid-January, U.S. intelligence analysts began quietly notifying local police departments about a host new violent, criminal threats surfacing in the wake of the Capitol riot. At only number six on their list, the analysts warned that voices emanating from one of the internet’s most malignant corners had begun calling for the murders of politicians and police.

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Demands for swift reprisals following the failed Jan. 6 coup resounded across a network of prominent Telegram channels manned by an amalgam of neo-Nazis, anti-government belligerents, and conspiracy-theory hawkers—a veritable open pit of genocidal fanaticism, where names like Adolf Hitler and Anders Breivik are spoken in reverent tones. Amid the usual xenophobic bellyaching, something more deadly arose from the crowd and grasped the attention of Homeland Security agents: calls for the most fanatical of members to launch suicide attacks on Democratic politicians and their Republican counterparts deemed “traitorous” to the cause. Likewise, any cops getting in the way would viewed as suitable targets.

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The massacres, they were told, should be livestreamed. Those who fell in the attacks would be “Saints.”

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On Jan. 15, nine days after the fatal assault on the Capitol, analysts at one of Florida’s three intelligence “fusion centers” issued their first bulletin of the year highlighting violent extremist content. The Violent Extremist Snapshot served to notify police in Central Florida of online posts by far-right extremists abetting real-world violence and crime. High on their list were the calls for political assassinations coming from white supremacists, neo-fascists, and other “racially-motivated” extremists.

The internal analysis, first reviewed by Gizmodo, reveals Homeland Security agents working closely with state and local agencies in the days following the Capitol siege. Intelligence gatherers at the agency’s dozens of “fusion centers” across the country had also monitored calls for violent action ahead of the event, though Washington had all but ignored the signs. In the days after, analysts were closely monitoring news about the mass migration of extremists to “alternative” platforms, as well as a flurry of calls to hunt down politicians in their home states, to loot and burn their houses, and to sabotage and set fire to “major retail businesses” viewed aligned with Jewish interests.

Obtained by record-seekers at the transparency group Property of the People, the reports originated from a Florida-based fusion center, one of the dozens of federally-funded counterterrorism offices that share intelligence with police agencies at the state and local levels. Information gleaned from social media is often shared with local departments, but only (in policy) when analysts on Domestic Violent Extremist (DVE) desks cross rhetoric viewed as inciteful to violence and criminal acts.

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Typically, the reports are read solely by personnel with a “valid need-to-know.” And while not classified, they are intended “FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.” Bolded notices on top sheets instruct readers to withhold the reports’ intelligence from the public and the media. Attempts to obtain such documents through public records requests often end with journalists getting pages that are entirely blacked out. But Property of the People, a small cadre of information activists and legal experts, has learned to navigate the nation’s oft-infuriating patchwork of open records statutes, exposing government pursuits that rarely see daylight.

Across a swath of Telegram channels known widely as “Terrorgram,” diehard fundamentalists, self-proclaimed chauvinists, and maniacal flag-waivers come together with the occasional religious zealot to marinate in their collective insecurities. By and large, most of this extremist enclave has moved beyond its support for Donald Trumpand indeed, many had long viewed him as a feckless political tool, incapable of igniting the race war they’ve long promised. But the furor of the accelerationists was seemingly intensified by the Capitol coup and their frustration with its defeat.

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Calls to martyr themselves swiftly followed.

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“In one post, subscribers of the channel were told that they were the new ‘jihadi john’ and that like Jihadi John, they would need a rifle, a camera and fanaticism,” analysts wrote in one report, referring to the nickname of a notorious Islamic State militant—known mostly for beheading hostages in propagandized snuff films.

Unlike the ISIS terrorist, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Syria in 2015, “Terrorgram” users were promised that their actions would lead to “victory” and that they would have even greater impact courtesy of their ability to livestream. Those killed in action were promised “a place on the Saints leaderboard,” an apparent coupling of a video game reference and a vague nod to Christian martyrdom.

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“The Saints leaderboard is both metaphorical and real,” says Megan Squire, a professor of computer science at Elon University who studies extremists online. Screenshots of social media posts provided by Squire showed a “Pantheon” of famous killers as far back as 2019, which included Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber; Breivik, a far-right spree killer who murdered 69 people in 2011; and Dylann Roof, the neo-Nazi convicted of the 2015 Charleston church shooting.

The intel reports refer to subjects primarily as “White Racially or Ethnically Motivated Extremists,” or WRMVEs. Although this official designation is rarely if ever used publicly—and is likely a newer addition to the government’s domestic terror thesaurus—references to WRMVEs have been featured in multiple intelligence community reports this year alone. Its specificity is more acute than “Domestic Violent Extremists” (DVE), but would seemingly encompass more threats than “White Supremacist Extremists” (WSE), a term more commonly found in recent national security texts.

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“It was suggested that the Mayor be killed on livestream,” the intelligence agents wrote of another surveilled discussion involving a user based in a Democratic Midwest town. “If the Sheriff tries to get involved, it was suggested that he/she be killed as well.” A Republican mayor would also suffice, they said, if they were deemed “traitorous” to the cause.

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In some cases, users sought to disguise blatant threats by censoring key words under the term “REDACTED.” As in: “[REDACTED] the sheriff if he tries shit, declare the U.S. Government illegitimate and call for All Patriots to the same.” This is a common practice and was especially popular among “Boogaloo adherents,” said Squire, referring to members of the overwhelmingly white, loosely-affiliated anti-government movement, who often pair Hawaiian shirts with tactical gear and protest with guns.

“The purpose of Terrorgram channels is to be inspirational to those who might commit violence in the name of white supremacy, anti-Semitism and so forth,” Squire said. “The people behind these channels produce propaganda in the form of memes and written arguments, primarily to advance the view that there is no other solution except violence, that martyrdom in service of that violence is a worthy goal, and so on.”

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The reports do not delve into why Republican politicians might have been painted as “traitors,” but in the timeframe around their distribution, the term had been frequently lobbed at Republicans refusing to endorse conspiracies of electoral fraud. Those who publicly acknowledged President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, such as Sen. Mitt Romney or Rep. Denver Riggleman, have been frequently derided as “traitors” by the former president’s zealous supporters.

Roger Stone, a longtime friend of Donald Trump, told Insider last month, for example, that Vice President Mike Pence was viewed as a “traitor” by many attending last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Footage captured inside the Capitol during the breach showed the rioting Trump supporters repeatedly chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”

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The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for a statement.

“For over a century, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement has targeted even mild leftist dissent as terrorism, while simultaneously ignoring and even assisting genuinely violent actors on the far-right,” Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People, told Gizmodo. “This has resulted in the brutal suppression of progressive movements and the rampant spread of murderous fascists menacing the nation today.”

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Telegram, an encrypted chat app that boasts over 500 million monthly active users, is considered by experts in online extremism to be a veritable “safe haven” for violent right-wing ideologies. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, the app has witnessed an influx in recent years of public channels “explicitly aligned with far-right terror groups.” In one recent case, a British teenager—said to be part of a Telegram group that idolized Hitler and the terrorists behind the 2019 Christchurch massacre—was charged in January with circulating a notorious neo-Nazi handbook encouraging assassinations of Jews and people of color and offering detailed instructions on how to build improvised weapons and explosives.

The stated goal of the manual is to topple democratic governments and incite an open race war.

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Since 2015, white supremacists in the West have carried out at least 26 lethal attacks killing more than 141 people, according to a U.S. intelligence report made public last week. “Of particular concern are white supremacists and anti-government extremists, such as militia groups and so-called sovereign citizens interested in plotting attacks against government, racial, religious, and political targets in the United States,” writes START, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

According to the Global Terrorism Index, attacks by right-wing terrorists increased by an astounding 320% between 2014 and 2019.

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Biden administration officials have recently signaled their intent to commit greater resources to the fight against “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.” Intelligence officials seeing new levels of cooperation among hate groups crossing geographical borders told Congress last month that violent extremists promoting “the superiority of the white race” now have the “most persistent and concerning transnational collections” out of all categories of domestic threats.

The focus on violent white supremacists would mark a significant policy shift, particularly from the Trump years, which saw diminishing support for programs countering a superior threat in favor of more politically advantageous ones—chiefly aimed at immigrants and Muslims. In 2018, violent attacks by far-right terrorists, including white supremacists, more than doubled that of Islamic extremists in the West, according to START. That same year, Trump outlined his administration’s counterintelligence strategy, never mentioning the word “white” (except in reference to the president’s home).

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“Islam,” conversely, made 25 appearances.

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“Lastly, the United States has long faced a persistent security threat from domestic terrorists who are not motivated by a radical Islamist ideology but are instead motivated by other forms of violent extremism,” the strategy paper eventually notes, in a final paragraph, listing “racially motivated” extremists in the same breath as animal rights activists.

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The District of Columbia’s chief medical examiner has ruled that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick had two strokes and died of natural causes, after he tussled with a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol. 

The medical examiner’s office said on Monday that the 42-year-old officer’s cause of death was natural causes after he suffered a stroke. He died the day after the January 6 violence. 

The findings mean it will be hard for federal prosecutors to bring homicide charges in connection with Sicknick’s death. 

Two men, George Tanios and Julian Khater, are facing charges they assaulted three police officers, including Sicknick, by spraying them with a chemical irritant on January 6. 

The Washington Post first reported the medical examiner’s ruling.  
 

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