The FBI has 850 open domestic terrorism investigations, 40% of which are cases of racially motivated violent extremism, an official says
Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee, McGarrity said a"significant majority" of those racially motivated cases involved white supremacist extremists, and he called the threat posed by domestic terrorists in the US"persistent and evolving.""The FBI assesses domestic terrorists collectively pose a persistent and evolving threat of violence and economic harm to the United States.
"What I can tell you of what we're seeing is the velocity in which our subjects and the velocity in which we're working our cases -- both on the domestic terrorism side and the international terrorism side with homegrown violent extremists -- that velocity is much quicker than it's ever been before."Of the 850 domestic terrorism cases open at the FBI, about half are into anti-government and anti-authority extremists, McGarrity said.
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