Patricia P. Murphy (Editor)

Series: Government Procedures and Operations
BISAC: POL064000; POL040000

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is the bedrock of our political system and guarantees every American the right to speak his or her mind freely and without interference from the government. It is predicated on the understanding that no government official has a monopoly on the truth and that every American can evaluate competing claims and deciding what to believe. Chapter 1 discusses the politicization of the FBI and DOJ and attacks on American civil liberties.

Chapter 2 investigates the FBI’s categorization of certain Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists. Under the guise of tackling the threat of domestic terrorism, the memorandum painted certain “radical-traditionalist Catholics” (RTCs) as violent extremists and proposed opportunities for the FBI to infiltrate Catholic churches as a form of “threat mitigation.”

Chapter 3 reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on behalf of a compromised Ukrainian intelligence entity, requested—and, in some cases, directed—the world’s largest social media platforms to censor Americans engaging in constitutionally protected speech online.