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Bloomberg News reports:
Federal law enforcement officers scoured social media to identify threats to FBI buildings and agents and issued internal warnings about possibly armed protests in the days after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, according to emails and other records obtained by Bloomberg.
Intelligence officers at the Federal Protective Service, an arm of the US Department of Homeland Security that protects federal buildings, called for increased patrols and security around government properties and instructed law enforcement officers to remain in a “heightened state of vigilance at this time.”
“An attack on a federal facility can occur in a variety of ways and is only limited to the imagination of the individual(s) who are planning, coordinating and executing the attack,” the FPS said in an Aug. 10 information bulletin.
Read the full article. And still the FBI Cincinnati office was attacked.
NEW via my #FOIA: Federal law enforcement officers scoured social media to identify threats to FBI buildings and agents and issued internal warnings about possibly armed protests in the days after the FBI searched former President Trump’s Florida estatehttps://t.co/wsGddLX50U
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 9, 2022
These 22 pages of documents underscore the ripple effect of the FBI’s search on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and the fears by federal law enforcement of the potential for political violence in its aftermath.
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 9, 2022
On Aug. 10, Richard Cline, FPS’s principal deputy director, sent an email to Randolph “Tex” Alles, a top DHS official, along with intel “reporting a spike in expressed social media threats against the FBI and to a lesser extent, other government and law enforcement agencies.”
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 9, 2022
Earlier that day, an FPS intelligence officer flagged a comment left on the far-right website The Gateway Pundit that said pic.twitter.com/Ic8qEyUIDt
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 9, 2022