WASHINGTON, D.C., December 5, 2025 – In response to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo, instructing federal law enforcement to target loosely defined “extremist groups”, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj released the following statement:
“We can all agree that violence is unacceptable and should be met with the full force of the law, but that’s not what this memo does. The Justice Department already has all of the authority it needs to investigate and prosecute violence, including heinous acts of domestic terrorism. But instead, this memo expressly seeks to redefine political dissent against the President as domestic terrorism, directing federal law enforcement to treat categories of people as broad as ‘anti-American’ and ‘anti-Christian’ as potential domestic terrorists based solely on their beliefs. Under this directive, what is a children’s television show today could be designated as Antifa tomorrow, all because of the authoritarian whims of a President hellbent on silencing any and all criticism.
This vague and politically charged attack on the freedom of speech, masked as a protective policy change, not only threatens our constitutional liberties, it risks empowering the government to target immigrant-rights groups, gender justice advocates, and other civic organizations that have been baselessly smeared as Antifa, silencing lawful advocacy and hurting the American public in the process.
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