The Proud Boy Informer

The Reuters scoop about Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio — revealing that he worked undercover for the FBI and local law enforcement in Miami for years, starting in 2012 — is intriguing. Recent reports have indicated that extremist, right-wing groups are heavily infiltrated by law enforcement agents. Tarrio, who was arrested in Washington DC on gun charges and for burning a Black Lives Matter flag, was conveniently run out of the capital two days before the January 6 insurrection. Is he still under the FBI’s protection?

The liberal media has been trying to lionize the FBI and the U.S. security apparatus for many years — certainly since the post-9/11 patriotic surge and, even more desperately, during the reign of Trump, despite ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller’s deflating investigation of the tyrannical ex-president and other lame “deep state” efforts to bring down Trump.

But independent journalists and civil liberties watchdogs have long regarded the FBI and other security agencies with a jaundiced eye. Considering the FBI’s long, dark track record on infiltrating and subverting militant domestic groups (going back to J. Edgar Hoover’s nefarious COINTELPRO tactics in the 1960s and ‘70s), it would be unsurprising if many leading members of the white nationalist movement were working clandestinely for the bureau.

The infiltration tactics employed by the FBI and police agencies don’t always work. They’ve sometimes created monsters. They’ve often crossed legal lines. It would be good to know more about the true identity of Enrique Tarrio and the other far-right extremists who are calling for war in America. Who’s pulling their strings and what’s their game?