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

The FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are failing to correctly handle the threat of domestic terrorism, predominantly from white supremacist and anti-government extremists, in accordance to a Senate committee report unveiled on Monday.

The Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee invested three a long time investigating domestic terrorism and the federal response.

It identified that the FBI and the DHS have “failed to systematically observe and report knowledge on domestic terrorism” and have not allotted sufficient resources to countering the danger.

The report will come following a spate of racist shootings in 2022. On Monday, a white man who shot 10 Black individuals to loss of life in a Buffalo grocery retailer in May pleaded guilty to murder and dislike-crime prices.

Both equally the FBI and the DHS have discovered domestic terrorism, in individual white supremacist violence, as the “most persistent and lethal terrorist threat” to the US, […]