Source: https://www.aclu.org/cases/mediajustice-et-al-v-federal-bureau-investigation-et-al
Publisher: American Civil Liberties Union
Date Published: March 21, 2019
Relevant To: Protest safety / anti-repression resources
Verification Status: Verified
Notes: ACLU/MediaJustice FOIA lawsuit seeking records on the FBI’s 2017 “Black Identity Extremists” intelligence assessment, which was disseminated to 18,000+ law enforcement agencies and asserted — without evidence — that a group of “Black Identity Extremists” posed a domestic terrorism threat. 2020 update: FBI claimed ~1 million potentially responsive pages exist and admitted it dropped the “BIE” label but folded it into a broader “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism” (RMVE) category alongside white supremacist violence. Direct historical precedent for the current “anti-tech extremism” and NSPM-7 designations documented elsewhere in this batch.