Republican ties to domestic terrorists explain why they want to look the other way on riot
The Biden administration is mobilizing resources to address the long-neglected threat of private militias and white supremacists, a menace whose chickens came home to roost on January 6.
The government confronted that danger in the 1990s when events at Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City caused the Justice Department and FBI to invest in resources to combat domestic terrorism.
9/11 brought a sea change. Intelligence agencies turned their attention to preventing external attacks by Islamic jihadists. This shift gave far right extremists and white supremacist groups free reign to grow. They exploited the internet and social media to recruit, spread propaganda, and carry out acts of violence.
By 2009 Daryl Johnson, an analyst at the Department of Homeland Security, wrote an internal report warning that the agency’s preoccupation with al Qaeda and Islamic error caused it to ignore domestic terrorism. He argued that the 2008 economic collapse, the election of the first black president, and culture wars, all forecast an imminent surge in right-wing domestic terrorism.
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