FBI and IRS agents will work together to investigate nonprofits for links to domestic terrorism

A new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations’ suspected ties to domestic terrorism is being formed, with FBI and IRS agents working together, CBS News is reporting. Its roots extend back to December, when Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to investigate and, when appropriate, prosecute “extremist” individuals and groups, including those that are part of the antifa movement.
“These domestic terrorists use violence or the threat of violence to advance political and social agendas, including opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity,” Bondi wrote in the Dec. 4 memo.
The potential Internal Revenue Service involvement would be related to “tax crimes” when extremist groups are “suspected of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service.”
“The Department of Justice is fully committed to preserving the rule of law, protecting law enforcement from coordinated attacks, ensuring everyone has the freedom to speak in the public square, participate freely in the electoral process, and practice their faith without fear of violence or harm, and bringing to justice the full range of criminal actors engaged in criminal conduct matching Congress’s definition of domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department spokesperson.
The initiative’s “mission control command center” will be based at the FBI, with agents from IRS Criminal Investigations working on one-year temporary assignments, according to the outlet.
The FBI will develop a list of groups that are engaged in acts that “may constitute domestic terrorism,” as defined by federal law. 

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