NSPM-7 is fundamentally a law enforcement directive, and it dispenses with the complications of using the active duty military or the National Guard in pursuit of political violence. It directs the Department of Justice to focus the FBI’s approximately 200 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) to the new mission. The FBI network of task forces comprises over 4,000 members—including FBI personnel and task force officers (or TFOs) from more than 500 state and local agencies and 50 federal agencies, including special agents, police officers, intelligence analysts and surveillance technicians. First established in New York City in 1980 to systematize FBI and NYPD cooperation, today there are task forces around the country, including at least one in each of the FBI’s 55 field offices.
Well there’s the reason he’s attacking Comey and the January 6 fbi agents right now. He’s terrorising them to scare anyone that might drag their feet on this.
Very critical to point out that this 4,000 member task force is not going to be enough to meaningfully enforce mass censorship and political repression across the country. It’ll be a gradual roll-out with the fascists seeking to make an example of groups and individuals that present themselves as easy or particularly prominent targets to try to scare everyone else into submission. That’ll backfire and they won’t really have the resources to handle the backlash without a pretty major mobilization.
Yeah my immediate thought upon reading this and the reason I quoted it was basically “ok so we already know what the exact precise hard limits for their manpower and work are”.
That information alone is valuable. It stops people from thinking “this is a limitless organisation of infinite power we are literally up against the entire United States” which is just not true at all but it’s how people perceive it without hard numbers.
Let me put this another way. I’m in orgs with more manpower than this here in the UK, and I’m sure some of you over there are too. You are bigger than they are.
Well there’s the reason he’s attacking Comey and the January 6 fbi agents right now. He’s terrorising them to scare anyone that might drag their feet on this.
Very critical to point out that this 4,000 member task force is not going to be enough to meaningfully enforce mass censorship and political repression across the country. It’ll be a gradual roll-out with the fascists seeking to make an example of groups and individuals that present themselves as easy or particularly prominent targets to try to scare everyone else into submission. That’ll backfire and they won’t really have the resources to handle the backlash without a pretty major mobilization.
Yeah my immediate thought upon reading this and the reason I quoted it was basically “ok so we already know what the exact precise hard limits for their manpower and work are”.
That information alone is valuable. It stops people from thinking “this is a limitless organisation of infinite power we are literally up against the entire United States” which is just not true at all but it’s how people perceive it without hard numbers.
Let me put this another way. I’m in orgs with more manpower than this here in the UK, and I’m sure some of you over there are too. You are bigger than they are.