TheVoiceOfJoyce Many of you may not have been born during the protests against the War in Vietnam. The protests swept our Nation’s college campuses and were stopped by the National Guard and the FBI. It was later discovered, the FBI infiltrated the kids movement, instigated their rhetoric , incited violence and then arrested them, or worse, as one National Guardsman, said to me years later; we had great fun bashing in their heads and hurting them with our bayonets. Now 40 yrs later, it’s been discovered, Donald Trump and his administration, weaponized the BLM protests, installed an FBI informant to knowingly incite violence, in order to divide our Country! Shame! We need a full accounting of these activities. The FBI appears to have abused their power under Trump, to hurt the minority population protesting the murder of innocent citizens.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/14/fbi-abuse-of-power-alleged-informant-denver-blm-protests

Wyden sits on the Senate intelligence committee which has oversight over federal intelligence-gathering agencies, including the FBI. He also fought for public disclosure of Donald Trump’s deployment in 2020 of more than 750 officers to his home town of Portland, Oregon, based on what he called “politicised and false intelligence reports”.

The FBI’s infiltration of Black Lives Matter in Denver “appears to show another instance of the Trump administration trampling on the rights of Americans in order to divide our country and gain a political advantage”, Wyden said. “The FBI owes the public a full accounting of its actions, including how anyone responsible for attempting to entrap and discredit racial justice activists will be held accountable.”

The Guardian contacted the FBI for a response but did not immediately hear back.

The new revelations of alleged FBI abuses towards Black activists comes at a paradoxical moment, given the efforts of the incoming Republican House leadership. On Thursday Jim Jordan, a staunch Trump loyalist from Ohio, chaired the opening hearing of his subcommittee on the “weaponization of the federal government” which seeks to show that the main victim of federal overreach is not minority and progressive groups but Donald Trump and his far-right supporters.

The actions of the FBI informant, Michael Windecker, or Mickey, as he was known, are revealed in a new 10-episode podcast by the investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson. Drawing on hours of undercover FBI recordings, along with internal FBI reports and interviews Aaronson conducted with genuine racial justice protest leaders, Alphabet Boys pieces together how Windecker inveigled himself into Black Lives Matter from May 2020.

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