FBI & DHS warn threats to federal law enforcement have spiked since Mar-a-Lago search

By artappraiser on Sun, 08/14/2022 - 10:00pm |

FBI and DHS warn threats to federal law enforcement have spiked since Mar-a-Lago search https://t.co/n5mAmF8G0x via @nbcnews
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) August 14, 2022

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-dhs-warn-threats-federal-law-enforcement-spiked-wake-mar-lago-sear-rcna43024

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The joint FBI/DHS bulletin warns of “multiple articulated threats and calls for the targeted killing of judicial, law enforcement, and government officials associated with the Palm Beach search, including the federal judge who approved the Palm Beach search warrant.” [1/x] https://t.co/GTTJsSkKXr
— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) August 14, 2022

Following the Mar-a-lago search, FBI & DHS have also “observed the personal identifying information of possible targets of violence, such as home addresses and identification of family members, disseminated online as additional targets,” according to the intelligence memo. [2/x]
— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) August 14, 2022

More on the federal government’s warning on the spike in specific threats to law enforcement officers and calls to violence online following the Mar-a-Lago search, here: https://t.co/1RzJSZ1V2R @CBSNews
— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) August 14, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/14/2022 - 10:03pm

The Social Workers could have handled this one, right Rep. Bush? -

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police: Man drove car into barricade near US Capitol, began firing gun in the air before fatally shooting himself.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 14, 2022

Police name the man they say crashed his car and killed himself near the U.S. Capitol https://t.co/yUO6eHYi9a
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) August 15, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/14/2022 - 10:06pm

U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, whose son was killed by a man targeting her at her New Jersey home, this week shared her view on the recent threats against the magistrate judge who signed the search warrant for former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. https://t.co/HiQd5rEJar
— Law.com (@lawdotcom) August 15, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/15/2022 - 6:08am

BREAKING: Twitter bans Florida Republican candidate Luis Miguel after he announces that his "plan" would permit "all Floridians" to "shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other federal troops ON SIGHT" — a clear call to arms for violent insurrection. RT TO THANK TWITTER FOR THE BAN!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) August 19, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 6:02pm

House panel probes online threats to federal law enforcement

By Andrew Solender @ Axios.com, 9 hrs. ago

[....] Driving the news: Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), who chairs the Oversight subcommittee on national security, sent letters to social media companies demanding "immediate action to address any threats of violence against law enforcement" on their platforms.

The letters also ask the companies about the volume of threats they've identified on their sites since the search — and whether there has been a "change in the nature or specificity of these threats."

They also request documents related to their policies on threatening posts, as well as "[a]ll advertisements shown alongside posts that were reported to law enforcement or removed by your company for threatening law enforcement."

The letters were sent to eight companies: Meta (the parent company of Facebook), Twitter, TikTok, Truth Social, Rumble, Gettr, Telegram and Gab.[....]

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 8:16pm

As FBI comes under threat, its leader tries to stay out of fray

After news broke of the FBI’s search for classified documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, the ex-president and many of his supporters declared open season on the bureau. Despite calls for a more forceful response to the vitriol and violent rhetoric, Christopher A. Wray has avoided jumping into the public fight.

Current headline story @ WashingtonPost.com, by Perry Stein, Ellen Nakashima, Hannah Allam and Josh Dawsey

by artappraiser on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 12:55am

FBI & DHS warn threats to federal law enforcement have spiked since Mar-a-Lago search

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