I've seen a great many intelligence bulletins and as they go, that one was pretty pathetic for a number of reasons.
First off The FBI in the memo equals the analyst and their superiors in a single field office. Namely Phoenix…a state with some baggage.
Secondly, the head of that office was replaced shortly afterwards. The memo was released on May 30, 2019 and a new SAIC was installed about a month later. Sum ting wong..
Look at the sources…pathetic. A few folks, none on the inside (c'mon it's the FBI) and using comp'd open sources Snopes, really?
Only listing two targets in the Domestic Fringe category…the two that actually attract high potency researchers…Pizzagate and QAnon. Where the varsity citizens play… Fringe, my ass!
Moving the bullseye under the darts in making the duh prediction that broad movements with popular appeal attract some loose cannons. No joke. Einstein.
Looking for corruption and then finding it could activate some more agitated types with mental illnesses…again, rocket surgery.
Overt narcissism…listing the bulletin as a first of it's kind and a basis for future bulletins to build on. What kind of sophomore fantasy did we stumble into.
Loading the report with analyst weasel words such as likely, might, etc… without listing how the conclusions and probability percentages explained later were arrived at, based on historical activity, valid and tested models, professional consensus…what? Or? Wild ass guesses…just as likely and just as useful to field operators.
Honestly, if I was still working and this came across my desk, we'd have to close the door and some serious instruction about proper research, source veracity, population sampling, analytical conclusion support, operationally useful information for field personnel, and many other things would have been discussed before an ashamed analyst and their supervisor (who would've been called in next) were dismissed to do a proper job and back it up or can it.
This was either the sloppiest analysis I've seen in a long time…decades…or it was a hit piece.