Newly released documents show that former President Joe Biden's administration labeled critics who opposed any of the COVID mandates as "Domestic Violent Extremists," a designation usually saved for militias.

In a new report from Catherine Herridge, recently declassified intelligence documents reveal that Biden's administration was so determined to force mask and vaccine mandates that it was willing to crush Americans' First Amendment rights to silence any opposition. It is just more proof that you can't hate them enough.

The report is titled "NEW: Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As 'Domestic Violent Extremists.'" 

Herridge posted a portion of her report on X that read:

Newly Released Documents Show The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism. 

The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as "Domestic Violent Extremists," or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public @shellenberger @galexybrane and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an 'articulable purpose' for FBI or other government agents to open an 'assessment' of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent.  

The report, which the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has declassified, claims that "anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists," specifically militias, "characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach." A sweeping range of COVID narratives "'have resonated" with DVEs "motivated by QAnon." 

The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, "DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates."

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Former FBI agent Steve Friend said by designating critics as part of violent extremism, "It's a way they could go to social media companies and say, 'You don't want to propagate domestic terrorism so you should take down this content.'"

NEW: Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As “Domestic Violent Extremists,” Newly Released Documents Show

The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism.

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— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) May 23, 2025

Herridge's report noted that the "prominent narratives" for those who opposed mandates "include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order."

A February 2022 report titled "Special Analysis: Joint Analytic Cell" investigates the "Sociopolitical Factors Amplifying Persistent Domestic Violent Extremist Threat," the Herridge report continues.

The newly declassified report seems to draw a straight line between opposition to vaccine mandates and elevated levels of domestic terrorism.  

However, a close reading of the report's statistics reveals that of the 2950 domestic terrorism cases handled by the FBI, the vast majority were 'related to the 6 January siege of the US Capitol.'

Those cases included 'parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building.'

Herridge shared some additional context regarding the reporting, noting that the declassified documents suggest that the Biden administration based its intelligence collection on political goals, thus turning the process of intelligence collection and analysis "on its head." 

Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci and Co.'s response to COVID was one of the biggest unconstitutional power grabs of all time.  

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