Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a bombshell Biden administration document this week, a blueprint for combating “domestic terrorism,” an umbrella term encompassing parents who attended school board meetings or Catholics who favored the traditional liturgy. This 2021 document, called the Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism, reveals a coordinated effort to target political opponents under the guise of national security. Its policy framework appears designed to silence and marginalize conservative viewpoints through a combination of speech monitoring, censorship, financial punishment, and gun control measures that threaten constitutional protections.

It totally and disturbingly disregards the difference between lawful expression and criminal intent. It explicitly directed the Justice Department, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security to monitor “incidents of concerning non-criminal behavior.” Whereas law enforcement normally monitors criminal acts or behaviors that demonstrate a clear intent to commit a crime, this directive ordered authorities to target lawful behavior. By equating lawful speech with extremism, the plan set a dangerous precedent for suppressing speech.