FBI releases it's long awaited required strategic assessment of domestic extremism.

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Seamus Hughes
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It’s Friday late afternoon (I guess that’s the point), so the FBI released it’s long awaited required strategic assessment of domestic extremism. Don’t let the late friday reading fool you. This is important. A short thread. 1/x

Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism | Federal Bureau of Investigation
As required by the National Defense Authorization Act, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, have produced this strategic intellig...
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1:47 PM · May 14, 2021

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It’s Friday late afternoon (I guess that’s the point), so the FBI released it’s long awaited required strategic assessment of domestic extremism. Don’t let the late friday reading fool you. This is important. A short thread. 1/x

Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism | Federal Bureau of Investigation

As required by the National Defense Authorization Act, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, have produced this strategic intelligenc…
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-strategic-report.pdf/view
According to the FBI, “Law enforcement and minorities” were the primary target of domestic violent extremists in 2017.
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In 2018, racially motivated and sovereign citizens played an outsized role in domestic extremism.
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Here’s what happened in 2019.
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They may have purposely buried the lede in page 22 of the document. But here’s the real importance of the report. From 2015 to 2019, the FBI and its colleagues arrested 846 people. 2016 was the most prolific year.
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FBI produced 4,000 reports on domestic terrorism over the four years. DHS produced ~1150 reports over three years.
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It takes five paragraphs for the FBI to deftly dodge answering the simply question of how many personnel they have working on domestic extremism.
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To end, you should read the whole report. If only because it’s the most comprehensive and accessible accounting of how the DIOG, the domestic investigative oversight guide, operates. This graph is music to @adamgoldmanNYT ears.
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1. Bookmarked for later.

I want to read through the entire report.