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Thursday, December 1st, 2022

US is failing to address ‘persistent and lethal threat’ of domestic terrorism, report finds

Author:     Adam Gabbatt
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Tue 29 Nov 2022 | 09.00 EST
 Link: US is failing to address ‘persistent and lethal threat’ of domestic terrorism, report finds
Stephan:   The American obsessive gun psychosis plus the frenzied, hysterical racism and hate in the White MAGAt community has made the U.S. an unsafe nation. And, as a society, we are not dealing with this properly. Here is a brief article that lays out some of the issues. It will be interesting to see whether once the Republicans take the majority in the House they do anything about this. My prediction is they will not, since the cohort that make America a dangerous country in which to live also constitutes the base of the Republican Party.
A man mourns at a memorial at the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York  Credit: Lindsay Dedario / Reuters

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.

Both the FBI and the DHS have identified domestic terrorism, in particular white supremacist violence, as the “most persistent and lethal terrorist threat” to the US, the committee said.

But the federal government has continued to focus “disproportionately” […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 4:16 pm

    I really thought we had a strong hold on the House which couldn’t be broken. It is unfortunate that we lost that hold. It was very important, and we failed to do our proper protests and marches and letters to our representatives to keep it.