Last week, during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, FBI Director Chris Wray said that the FBI doesn’t “monitor protests.” Subsequently, an incredulous public response ensued via every social media platform imaginable.

Having supervised the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) surveillance squads, I can say with complete confidence that the FBI does monitor protests. But, that statement doesn’t necessarily contradict Director Wray’s comments to Holt.

During the summer of “mostly peaceful” protests in 2020, the FBI was involved in monitoring protestors — more accurately described as rioters. The BLM movement, supplemented by ANTIFA anarchists, capitalized on the use of force incident that resulted in the death of George Floyd. Despite Floyd’s extensive criminal record, and the toxic levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his body at the time of his death, Floyd was lionized by BLM activists. He was simply a catalyst for leftists waiting for an opportunity to agitate and profit. Former Baltimore Police officer Eric Garner’s use of force continues to be hotly debated, and the now infamous phrase “I can’t breathe” was used by BLM agitators to spark a wave of rioting, looting, destruction, and death not seen since the LA riots of 1992.

A more effective action program could not have been concocted in Moscow or Beijing. All of America was focused on the anarchy unleashed in the name of police brutality and institutional racism. Americans would do well to remember, chaos is an often utilized technique of foreign adversaries in........

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