it was not enough to have a guilty verdict. she understood that there was something much more nefarious at play. and so she brought a civil suit against the klan in alabama. this was an opportunity to take down one of the longest-standing white supremacist, domestic terrorist organizations that existed in the nation. think about this. this is a black woman who s just lost her son to lynching, finds the strength to move forward in a civil suit against the klan in alabama. it s almost unimaginable.
well, after a few months, about 100 days i think they mentioned of this massive study in which they are able to say all the things they just did about where the problem is and of course the problem goes to the whites of premises that we really can t find that many of, and to religious people who believe in certain principles that we ve always believed in, those of the problem people and yet they failed to answer the two big questions. they were unable to say here s what we need: we need a material support type of violation to deal with the mystic terrorism similar to what we have when we are dealing with international terrorism and providing material support to terrorists and so we need that for domestic organizations and what about classifying some domestic organizations as domestic terror organizations? they left that alone. why did they leave that alone? why did not really talk about that much except to say that? because if they sat down and they did guidelines, they would have to
start looking at blm and antifa and other groups as domestic terrorist organizations. they haven t figured out yet how we can slice this up and do one without doing the other and they are not ready to do that but all this is about is political. it is not about terrorism or the best way to work with terrorism? i don t know what andy mccabe knows about terrorism but i will tell you this, we worked so hard in the fbi to make sure we did not make terrorism about religions and people and skin color. we tried to stay around facts and every time we did an operation that got away from facts and following the trail of the evidence we got in trouble and many times we got in trouble through doing what politicians wanted us to do at the time that our cities were burning. i m talking about during the days of rage or ruby ridge when you had people murdered.
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i mean, it was just amazing what was on twitter and youtube and face buick you book. we worked with the technology companies. we said, look, here are the types of things you look for that are inspiring attacks a rourchd the world. they actually did an incredible job to get the stuff off of their sites. twitter has taken down well over a million isis affiliated handles. they continue to be good at mii. there are a lotgo of similar tys of extremism and recruitment that comes from other types of terrorist organizations includingis extremism here domestically, domestic terrorist organizations. it s a dialogue between government and social media organizations is important, is appropriate. the technology companies hereorn silicon valley want it. they claim that they re really not getting much cooperation from washington. nd i think that that s a problem. i think we really all have to work together here. you know, you can connect the dots between attacks in charleston just south of here in so