MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Doesn't Understand Why Trump Activists Aren't Under Surveillance
The January 6 Capitol riot left many Americans wondering what the national security agencies missed when it came to securing the congressional building, especially on the day that had been forewarned as dangerous by many.
The increasing number of domestic terrorism cases, including the bombing in Nashville on Christmas Day, has raised anxieties that such fatal events could be avoided if intelligence agents heightened and broadened their surveillance.
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On Friday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked his colleague, correspondent Ken Dilanian, why individuals who pose domestic terrorism threats, like the ones at the storming of the Capitol, are not policed by intelligence agencies the same way foreign terrorists have been post-9/11.
"I never understood why we don't go as aggressively after domestic terrorists as we do Islamic terrorists. It's not as if we didn't have a domestic terrorist blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1996," Scarborough said. "It's not as if we haven't seen the rise of domestic terrorism, especially through the Trump era. Why in the world would there not be stronger domestic terrorism laws?"
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Hopefully that will change. I imagine such surveillance would contribute to the right's victim complex.
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