One of the things that you see when you read Project 2025 is not just the racist dog whistles, but some ideas that were exactly lifted from some of the most extreme white supremacists ever.
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See, for example, Joseph Goldstein, “As Seen in ‘Goodfellas’: York Times, January 23, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com igation-including-78-lufthansa-heist.html (accessed February 3, 2023). ace, “FBI Nationwide Operation Locates 121 Acti ews, August 15, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi hild-sex-trafficking-victims (accessed February 3, 2023). “EBI Stepped in After Suspec
New inves Daniel Fox kids-c Adam Shaw, Finds,” Fox
politicians (accessed The precise scope and contours of t rafficking investigations or specific inthe as comprehensive a review as possi 28 U.S. Code § 531, https://Awww. Emphasis added. The same could be sai arshals Service, alth why the department
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s,” The Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2021, https://www. wsj.com/articles/about-those-domestic-terrorists-national-school-boards-association-merrick-garland-memocom, “Are Parents Being Tagged as ‘Domestic Terrorists’ ment Needs to Show Its Cards,” Heritage Foundation Commentary, November httos://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/are-paren
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he Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and potentially to the U.S. ough the USMS’s mission protecting the federal courts could present compelling reasons in it as a direct report to the Deputy Attorney General.
See, for example, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers No. 1, October 27, 1787, https://founders.archives.
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ilton/01-04-02-0152 (accessed February 3, 2023). at the upper echelons of the FBI’s ing to ensure proper accountability and to emphasize organizational
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lined above.
eneral, Audit of the Roles and Responsibilities of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of the General Counsel in National Security Matters, Report No. 22-16,
September 2022, https://oig justice. S. 2212, Crime Control Act of 1976, P amended at 28 U.S. Code § 532), ht pdf (accessed February 3, 2023).
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