US is failing to address ‘persistent and lethal threat’ of domestic terrorism, report finds – By Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian) / Nov 29, 2022
Federal government has continued to focus ‘disproportionately’ on international terrorist threats despite spate of racist shootings
The FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are failing to properly address the threat of domestic terrorism, predominantly from white supremacist and anti-government extremists, according to a Senate committee report released on Monday.
The Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee spent three years investigating domestic terrorism and the federal response.
It found that the FBI and the DHS have “failed to systematically track and report data on domestic terrorism” and have not allocated sufficient resources to countering the threat.
The report comes after a spate of racist shootings in 2022. On Monday, a white man who shot 10 Black people to death in a Buffalo grocery store in May pleaded guilty to murder and hate-crime charges.
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