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“This draft document seems to be consistent with earlier intelligence reports from DHS, the FBI, and other law enforcement sources: that the most significant terror-related threat facing the US today comes from violent extremists who are motivated by white supremacy and other far-right ideological causes,”
All three documents note that 2019 was the most deadly year for domestic violent extremists since the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. “Among DVE [domestic violent extremist] actors, WSEs [white supremacist extremists] conducted half of all lethal attacks (8 of 16), resulting in the majority of deaths (39 of 48),” the drafts read.
Two former top DHS political appointees told POLITICO last month that White House national security officials shied away from addressing the problem and didn’t want to refer to killings by right-wing extremists as domestic terrorism.
39 deaths in 8 attacks is tragic, but does that really constitute a major terrorist threat? Chicago alone could rack up that many kills in a couple monthsof weekends.Perhaps they were workplace violence like the Ft Hood murders.