A week ago, Newsweek reported that FBI Director Christopher Wray told a House committee that the FBI is investigating a number of "anarchist-extremist groups," including people with "kind of an antifa ideology."http://www.newsweek.com/antifa-sympathizers-investigated-fbi-728340 …
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The VSP report uses this "outside agitator" concept to suggest that folks who travel for rallies don't have close contact with local organizers and that they may use this anonymity to instigate violence.
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This in turn hints that the FBI is using this patterned behavior as the basis for its investigations.
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So what does that mean for us? It's not illegal to attend a rally somewhere other than where you live. But the investigative microscope may spend more time examining you if you're outspoken about punching Nazis and tend to show up in a bunch of different cities.
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We always knew that the FBI would be watching these rallies closely. But the combination of these reports does give a slightly clearer picture of *what* they're investigating and *how*.
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