The FBI designated Alex Jones’ INFOWARS as “white racially motivated extremists” and a potential national security threat in 2013, FOIA documents reveal.
Responding to an Infowars FOIA request, the FBI turned over documentation showing the bureau had classified Infowars with a Type 3 threat assessment, the highest national security threat level that falls just below warranting an official criminal investigation into potential homegrown violent extremist (HVE) groups.
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According to the FBI’s 2013 Domestic Operations and Investigations Guide (DIOG), Type 3 is used specifically for identifying and gathering information on national security threats or potential criminal activities with a focus on homegrown violent extremists or similar threats.
Type 3 also allows for a broader range of investigative techniques than Type 1 or 2, including database checks, physical surveillance of public movements, and engaging informants, without needing a specific factual basis for suspecting illegal activity.
The extremist designation is particularly notable given then FBI Director James Comey had said in 2016 that the bureau has no official vetting process for designating white extremist groups. Rather, he said the FBI relied on outside sources and nonprofit organizations to make such determinations.
In 2013, Infowars had not been flagged for white extremism by watchdogs such as the SPLC or the ADL.
So how did the FBI end up designating Infowars as a potential white supremacist organization?
Unfortunately, the FOIA documents don’t shed much light on how the FBI arrived at that conclusion.
This major development further supports the notion that US intelligence agencies have been unfairly targeting Infowars for years.
Recall that the Sound Investigations group in April 2024 exposed a CIA contractor admitting in undercover video that intelligence agencies had been targeting Infowars with lawfare in a bid to shut down the news outlet.
Read the FOIA documents:
🚨BREAKING: FOIA Documents Recently Released Under The Trump Administration Prove The FBI Has Been Spying On InfoWars Since 2013–– Disgustingly Classifying InfoWars As A 'White Racially Motivated Extremists' Organization Under A Type 3 Assessment Classification
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