A researcher at a far-right think tank helped Justice Department prosecutors craft their indictment for terror charges against an alleged “north Texas antifa cell,” the researcher testified Monday. The charges were brought in relation to a protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center outside Dallas.
Kyle Shideler of the Center for Security Policy said under questioni...
The strongest version of this narrative exposes a troubling intersection of federal prosecution and partisan advocacy, where a researcher from a far-right think tank—one with a documented history of promoting anti-left and Islamophobic rhetoric—directly influenced the language of a domestic terrorism case. The defense’s challenges to Shideler’s methodology and credibility are valid: his lack of academic rigor, reliance on unverified sources, and admission that he uses Signal (a tool he labels a ...