FBI Director faces scrutiny over refusal to name Antifa as organization

 

"Testifying before Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray faced questions from lawmakers on the FBI’s flawed understanding of Antifa.

“Antifa is a real thing. It is a not a fiction, but it is not an organization or a structure, we understand it to be more of a kind of a movement, or maybe you could call it an ideology.” FBI Director, Christoper Wray

"Rep. Daniel Crenshaw immediately challenged the FBI Director’s assertions,

“That seems to me to be down-playing it… This is an ideology that organizes locally, it coordinates regionally and nationally, it wears a standardized uniform, it collects funds to buy high-powered lasers to blind federal officers, build homemade explosive devices, feed their rioters since they clearly aren’t working and then bail out those who have been arrested… This is an ideology that has trained its members, makes shield wall phalanxes to attack federal officers. It formed an autonomous zone in an American city and besieged a federal courthouse in another, so it just seems to be more than an ideology.” US Rep Danieal Crenshaw (TX)

"Crenshaw, a former U.S. Navy Seal, obviously knows that just because you operate as a member of a small and highly independent group doesn’t mean you aren’t part of a larger organization or structure."

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