A declassified intelligence report is raising serious questions about how the Biden administration shaped the domestic terrorism narrative following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The report, which became public in April, shows that a vast majority of domestic terrorism investigations and arrests during 2021 were tied specifically to the Capitol incident—casting doubt on whether there was a broad, nationwide surge in extremism.
The February 2022 report by the Joint Analytic Cell on Domestic Violent Extremism—a coalition of the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Counterterrorism Center—detailed the scope of domestic terrorism cases.
It revealed that 61 percent of investigations and 78 percent of arrests in that year were tied to the events of Jan. 6.
New data, declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, confirmed that nearly 1,800 of the FBI’s 2,950 domestic terrorism investigations initiated in 2021 stemmed from the Capitol riot.
The total number of FBI investigations had risen sharply from approximately 1,400 earlier that year.
However, once Capitol riot-related cases are excluded, the number of terrorism cases actually declined compared to 2020, as highlighted by Just the News.
Likewise, domestic terror-related arrests spiked from 180 in fiscal year 2020 to nearly 800 in 2021.
The report indicates most of those arrests were tied to Capitol riot activity, not a widespread escalation across multiple ideologies or regions.
The Biden White House began laying the groundwork for a new national security policy just weeks after taking office.
In early 2021, then-Press Secretary Jen Psaki cited the Capitol attack as evidence of an urgent domestic terror threat.
The administration followed through in June 2021 with a National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, relying heavily on Jan. 6 as justification.
Internal criticism soon followed.
In May 2023, the House Judiciary Committee and its Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee revealed whistleblower complaints from within the FBI.
These whistleblowers alleged that agents were pressured to open individual cases on nearly every Capitol protester and then distribute those cases to field offices across the country.
The strategy, they said, created the illusion of a nationwide wave of violent extremism.
“Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single black swan incident at the Capitol,” one whistleblower explained.
“FBI and Justice Department officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States.”
The report noted that this method of case handling artificially inflated both geographic scope and statistical volume, giving the appearance of multiple simultaneous threats when, in fact, most activity was tied to one location on one day.
Congressional testimony from FBI and DHS officials in 2022 and 2023 cited large increases in domestic terrorism investigations without disclosing that the surge came almost exclusively from Jan. 6 cases.
These omissions contributed to the perception that the threat of homegrown extremism had escalated broadly and rapidly.
Critics argue the Biden administration used the Capitol riot to build political momentum for new federal powers and funding in the name of counterterrorism.
The newly released intelligence documents now raise questions about whether those actions were supported by a genuinely expanding threat or largely driven by a singular high-profile event.
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