DHS formally classified Antifa activities as "domestic terrorist violence" ....in EARLY 2016 DHS formally classified Antifa activities as "domestic terrorist violence"  ....in EARLY 2016 https://www.globalresearch.ca/fbi-dhs-officially-classify-antifa-activities-as-domestic-terrorist-violence/5607161 As Politico points out today (9/1/2017), previously unreported FBI and Department of Homeland Security studies found that “anarchist extremist” group like Antifa have been the “primary instigators of violence at public rallies” going back to at least April 2016 when the reports were first published: ...by April 2016, authorities believed that “anarchist extremists” were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of “the capitalist system,” racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI. Not surprisingly, law enforcement officials noted that the rise in Antifa violence overlapped perfectly with Trump’s campaign as they made appearances at rally after rally to incite chaos…all the while making it seem as if violent, racist Trump supporters were to blame. “It was in that period [as the Trump campaign emerged] that we really became aware of them,” said one senior law enforcement official tracking domestic extremists in a state that has become a front line in clashes between the groups. “These antifa guys were showing up with weapons, shields and bike helmets and just beating the shit out of people. … They’re using Molotov cocktails, they’re starting fires, they’re throwing bombs and smashing windows.” ...even by the spring of 2016, the FBI had already grown concerned enough about Antifa that they began investigating overseas trips by activists out of concerns that they were coordinating with European anarchists to stage large bombings in the U.S. By the spring of 2016, the anarchist groups had become so aggressive, including making armed attacks on individuals and small groups of perceived enemies, that federal officials launched a global investigation with the help of the U.S. intelligence community, according to the DHS and FBI assessment. The purpose of the investigation, according to the April 2016 assessment: To determine whether the U.S.-based anarchists might start committing terrorist bombings like their counterparts in “foreign anarchist extremist movements” in Greece, Italy and Mexico, possibly at the Republican and Democratic conventions that summer. Some of the antifa activists have gone overseas to train and fight with fellow anarchist organizations, including two Turkey-based groups fighting the Islamic State, according to interviews and internet postings. ...Alas, we suspect you’ll hear precisely nothing about any of this on CNN. Not only didn't we hear anything like that from the domestic terrorist supporting name in news CNN, but now we have a network of Antifa PR campaigns going on such as Teen Vogue Tells Readers "ANTIFA Aspires Toward Creating A Better World"  Did Oblather remind people today about Antifa activities being a serious concern among HIS administration's DHS and FBI?   Has the FBI since changed their tune and do they now carry water for Antifa, in this report that is actually doing what the FBI told us in 2016 IS the Antifa playbook, which is, to try to blame and frame right wing groups?  And regarding Gen. Mattis' little fireside chat article in The Atlantic mag (Trump bashing is their specialty), he sounded clueless about Obama's DHS and FBI warnings about Antifa that came before Trump was ever elected. The article has curious timing as well, coming out the same day as Obama's online townhall.