Topic: Budget Cycles

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31: BIE BAE
• 14:32 - 19:26

31: BIE BAE

Michael German on FBI Intelligence Tactics

Former FBI agent Michael German criticizes the Bureau for creating the Black Identity Extremist label to justify surveillance of activists protected by the First Amendment. The hosts discuss the "six-week cycle" theory, where the FBI allegedly manufactures or hypes threats to maintain public relevance and secure budget increases. They argue that the Dallas and Baton Rouge shootings were rolled into a single movement label for administrative convenience.