CHRIS WRAY/CRIME/FBI/RACISM/RELIGION/TERRORISM: “The FBI has about 1,000 open investigations into potential domestic terrorists, including people who may be linked to extremist white supremacy, white nationalism and environmental movements, the agency’s new chief, Christopher Wray, told Congress today.
During his first testimony as FBI director, Wray said domestic terrorism is ‘a very, very serious’ matter that the investigative agency spends ‘a lot of our time focused on.’…
In the past year alone, 176 people in the U.S. have been arrested on suspicion of links to domestic terrorism, he said.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, noted that inside the United States there have been nearly three times as many domestic terrorist attacks carried out by white supremacists and anti-government activists than by people inspired or otherwise tied to international terrorist groups…
Wray said the FBI has a ‘significant number of agents who are working very, very hard’ against domestic terrorism.
He noted that while there are no laws specifically focused on domestic terrorism, as there are for internationally-linked terrorism, federal authorities are able to charge domestic terrorism suspects with other offenses, such as for weapons violations.
He said the FBI’s 1,000 or so investigations into potential domestic terrorists are in addition to about the same number of probes by the FBI into ‘homegrown violent extremists’ such as those who may be inspired by ISIS.”
-Mike Levine, “FBI has 1,000 open investigations into violent white supremacy, domestic terror: Agency chief,” ABC News, Sept. 27, 2017 12:19pm