🚨 FBI Constitutional Violation on J6
— William Taylor (@RetFBI) August 21, 2025
If you exercised your 1st Amendment right on J6 and wore a Trump hat, the FBI may have used that alone to consider you a Domestic Terrorist.
The FBI uses case classifications for every investigation. The 266 case classification is for… pic.twitter.com/XC7OZmkXk6
If you exercised your 1st Amendment right on J6 and wore a Trump hat, the FBI may have used that alone to consider you a Domestic Terrorist.
The FBI uses case classifications for every investigation. The 266 case classification is for Domestic Terrorism (DT) investigations. One of three extra requirement to open a DT case is to have and show evidence that the alleged crime is motivated by an IDEOLOGY. First Amendment protected speech cannot be the ideology.
You must read the below email. This email is from August 2, 2021 – nearly 7 months after #J6. It is between two FBI attorneys because there has been a sudden influx of legal questions from the field about what is sufficient “ideology” to consider a J6 case a Domestic Terrorism (266) case.
👉The HQ attorney indicates that in several field offices, “some believe that articles of clothing or signs with a politician’s name displayed is sufficient to establish ideology.”
Seven months into J6 investigations we see the field has been opening Domestic Terrorism investigations solely based on 1st Amendment speech such as a Trump shirt or hat.
To this attorney’s credit, they recognize this is a 1st Amendment violation.
The 176 case classification referenced by the attorney is for “Riots”.
This is primary evidence the #FBI unlawfully labelled and watchlisted people as Domestic Terrorists simply because they supported a specific political candidate.
The FBI has never been held accountable for its politicization.
🔁This will be suppressed. Please RT for maximum visibility and accountability.
As a side note - Notice that the email is not marked as a "RECORD" meaning this email is a violation of the Federal Records Act.
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