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Biden admin eyes new approach to violent domestic extremism
For four years, the executive branch largely ignored the rising threat of right-wing domestic extremists. Now, that s changing.
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Jan. 26, 2021, 1:40 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
In the post-9/11 era, many have embraced an assumption that the nation s most serious security threats are foreign. In recent years, however, experts have pointed in a different direction.
A few years ago, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism conducted a law-enforcement survey and found that domestic, anti-government radicals were considered the most serious threat. Research from the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University came to a similar conclusion.