More than two decades after 9/11, the federal government is struggling to address the most significant terrorist threat currently facing the nation.
That is the crux of a new report released Wednesday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Democratic majority. The 128-page report is the culmination of a three-year investigation into the rise in domestic terrorism and the federal government’s response.
At the same time, the report accuses federal law enforcement agencies of failing to systematically track and report data on domestic terrorism, despite a requirement to do so under federal law.
The FBI’s press office addressed a number of the report’s findings in an emailed statement to Yahoo News, noting that the agency “has made changes through the years in how we categorize domestic terrorism threats.” “This allows us to be agile and adjust resources commensurate with current threats,” the FBI statement reads. “The FBI assesses that our top domestic terrorism threats are Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism and Anti-Government or Anti-Authority Violent Extremism. They are among the FBI’s top threat priorities and on the same level as homegrown violent extremism and ISIS.”
Overall, the Senate report shows how the federal agencies that were restructured, or created, to focus on fighting international terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 have been slow to shift gears, even as the danger presented by domestic terrorism has steadily grown to eclipse that of foreign threats. While the report calls the Biden administration’s strategy “a step in the right direction,” it concludes that “DHS has not provided the committee with data or information, such as documents that would enable the committee to assess how DHS is implementing Biden’s strategyThe Senate committee’s investigation also examined the role of social media — specifically, Meta, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube — in accelerating the threat of domestic terrorism, and concluded that “terrorist and extremist...
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