FBI Reassigns Agents—Because White Supremacy Was Never the Threat

The Bureau reorients toward protecting settler empire—not from extremism, but from resistance.

When the U.S. state moves its chess pieces, it rarely says “checkmate.” It just shrugs and blames the board.

This week, Senator Dick Durbin sent a concerned little letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, wondering aloud why roughly 16 agents and analysts were quietly pulled from the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Operations Section. “Surely,” he mused, “this won’t impair the bureau’s ability to investigate violent extremism?” But here’s the thing Senator Durbin doesn’t get—or pretends not to: the U.S. government isn’t failing to confront white supremacist terrorism. It’s realigning to protect it.

This is not a policy glitch. It’s a program update.

Let’s call it what it is: a reallocation of state force toward the preservation of settler empire, in the midst of an accelerating legitimacy crisis. Under Trump 2.0, the FBI has been placed firmly under the control of Kash Patel, a loyalist operative whose only real qualification is fealty to the regime. His task is simple: restructure the Bureau to serve the political needs of white empire under stress.

Historically, that meant dismantling the Black Panther Party, infiltrating civil rights organizations, and criminalizing every anti-colonial and revolutionary tendency inside the U.S. Today, it means dismantling anything that threatens the material coherence of the settler project: migrants, radical labor, Indigenous sovereignty, antifascists, and revolutionary organizers.

So when the FBI reassigns its agents from “domestic terrorism” to “immigration enforcement,” it’s not a downgrade. It’s a reorientation toward what the regime sees as the real threat: the demographic and political crisis of whiteness in a collapsing empire.

They’re not preparing for the next Oklahoma City. They’re preparing for the next Ferguson.

You don’t need a counterterrorism unit if the terrorists wear badges, fly flags, and vote red. You need a domestic counterinsurgency force, streamlined, flexible, and armed with biometric data, predictive algorithms, and ICE raids.

This is what we at Weaponized Information define as technofascist consolidation: the fusion of traditional state violence with data-driven tools of social control, deployed primarily against the colonized proletariat and their allies inside the imperial core.

Durbin’s protestations about “reallocating resources” are nothing more than liberal nostalgia for a fantasy Bureau that never existed. The FBI was always about repression. It’s just updated its algorithm.

This isn’t a bug. It’s the system operating exactly as designed.

And if we don’t build a revolutionary counterforce, fast, they’ll sweep up the future with the same quiet efficiency they used to sweep these agents into ICE.

This is the new FBI.
Not Hoover’s agency of repression.
But the algorithmic frontline of White Empire 2.0.

Redlines are being drawn in data, detention, and digital surveillance.
And the next target isn’t “terrorism.”
It’s you.