White nationalism is as much of a threat to U.S. as ISIS, FBI's Open Investigations Show
Source: Newsweek
BY HARRIET SINCLAIR ON 9/27/17 AT 2:30 PM
The threat of white nationalist violence in the U.S. is at least as big a threat as that posed by terror groups such as ISIS, the FBI revealed Wednesday.
Director Chris Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that there are currently 1,000 open investigations into domestic terror groups and another 1,000 probes into groups with radical Islamist ideology. But the similar numbers did not satisfy some members of the panel, with several complaining of a double standard in how attacks from white supremacists were investigated compared to those carried out by people who identified as having radical Islamic ideology.
The number of attacks carried out by white supremacists were “almost triple” those of those carried out by people who identified with groups such as ISIS, said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). And government data obtained by The Hill suggests the number of white supremacist attacks compared to those from radical Islamic groups was as many as two to one.
“We have had zero hearings on the threat of domestic terrorists and the threat they pose and our response to it,” McCaskill said, explaining there had been a number of hearings about ISIS, but none about white supremacists.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/white-nationalism-much-threat-us-isis-fbis-open-investigations-show-672623
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Why would the majority party in Congress want to have hearings about their base? They want eyes kept on those "Devil worshipping" denizens of the desert, not "God" fearing white Americans who feel persecuted!!!
