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For over a year, leaders in the Department of Homeland Security begged, pleaded, cursed and tried to cajole the con artist into taking the threat of domestic terrorists seriously. Instead, all he wanted to whine about was "jihadists" who haven't done a single attack in this country for a few years while white supremacists and white nationalists have gone on a shooting spree.
In March of this year, right after the slaughter of 51 Muslims in New Zealand by a white supremacist, President Donald Trump said he did not think white nationalism was a rising threat around the world. "I don't really," he said. "I think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems."
Meanwhile, over 100 people have been killed and nearly 8 times that number injured in mass shootings in the U.S. since then.
The sources tell CNN that the one paragraph about domestic terrorism was the best the Department of Homeland Security officials could get. DHS went with an "all forms of terror" approach and "restructured offices and experts to be ideologically agnostic but focused on the threat wherever it morphed," said the senior source involved in the discussions. "When it became clear the White House was going to say little if anything on domestic terrorism we asked that they at least say in the Counterterrorism Strategy that there would be a subsequent domestic terrorism strategy."
But the White House would not agree to that, either, sources tell CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/politics/white-house-domestic-terrorism/index.html
The document [National Counterterrorism Strategy] mentions that domestic terrorism is on the rise, but the subject is only briefly addressed, all the more stark given that FBI Director Christopher Wray's July testimony that there have been almost as many domestic terror arrests in the first three quarters of the fiscal year -- about 100 -- as there have been arrests connected to international terror. Wray noted that the majority of the domestic terrorism cases were motivated by some version of white supremacist violence, adding that the FBI takes the threat "extremely seriously."
In March of this year, right after the slaughter of 51 Muslims in New Zealand by a white supremacist, President Donald Trump said he did not think white nationalism was a rising threat around the world. "I don't really," he said. "I think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems."
Meanwhile, over 100 people have been killed and nearly 8 times that number injured in mass shootings in the U.S. since then.
Why the White House pushed back so much is a matter of some debate. The former senior administration official noted that the White House, specifically the President, has a problem criticizing white supremacy, and says he "didn't have expectation they would get behind it" -- the brief mention of domestic terrorism as a threat in the National Counterterrorism Strategy -- "because the preponderance of it involves white supremacy and that's not something this administration is comfortable speaking out against, until the other day by the President and even that was pretty hedged."
The sources tell CNN that the one paragraph about domestic terrorism was the best the Department of Homeland Security officials could get. DHS went with an "all forms of terror" approach and "restructured offices and experts to be ideologically agnostic but focused on the threat wherever it morphed," said the senior source involved in the discussions. "When it became clear the White House was going to say little if anything on domestic terrorism we asked that they at least say in the Counterterrorism Strategy that there would be a subsequent domestic terrorism strategy."
But the White House would not agree to that, either, sources tell CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/politics/white-house-domestic-terrorism/index.html
