Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified documents that reveal Americans who opposed Covid mandates, including lockdowns, vaccine and mask orders, were placed on the Domestic Terror Watch List.
The Biden administration labeled those who disagreed with the government’s stance as “Domestic Violent Extremists.”
As Tulsi Gabbard explains, the federal government abbreviated the term to ‘DVEs’.
Catherine Herridge, one of the journalists who obtained the newly declassified records, notes “The designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other government agents to open an “assessment of individuals.”
In other words, the government was making it legal for three-letter agencies to target known dissenters who had not broken any laws.
NEW: Biden Administration Labeled Opponents Of Covid Mandates As “Domestic Violent Extremists,” Newly Released Documents Show
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) May 23, 2025
The designation infringed on the First Amendment and opened the door to investigating Americans for vaccine mandate skepticism.
The Biden Administration… pic.twitter.com/BFbffO0xUC
A former FBI agent told Herridge that this “is often the first step toward a formal investigation.”
Herridge further reports:
The report… 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, the report states, “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.”
The report cites criticism of mandates as “prominent narratives” related to violent extremism. These narratives “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.
“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,’” said former FBI agent Steve Friend.
Wow. So the so-called “violent extremists” were just parents, doctors, and concerned citizens warning that the experimental COVID vaccines might not be safe for young people.
Turns out they weren’t spreading “dangerous misinformation” after all—they were raising legitimate concerns that Big Pharma and government agencies are now quietly beginning to admit were valid all along.
Funny how the narrative shifts when the truth finally catches up.
The FDA is requiring COVID vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna to update their warnings about the possible risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. https://t.co/KWQ2WpuBI6
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 21, 2025