The agency founded because of 9/11 is shifting to face the threat of domestic terrorism Nick Miroff
Replay Video UP NEXT On a Saturday morning in August 2019, a 21-year-old White man with ear protectors, safety glasses and an AK-47-style rifle walked into a crowded Walmart in El Paso, his pockets bulging with ammunition. He had driven hundreds of miles across Texas, prosecutors say, because he wanted to kill Latinos. Kevin McAleenan, the acting homeland security secretary, was at a Coast Guard picnic in Virginia that day, and soon the urgent messages began arriving. A sinking feeling of horror set in as the magnitude of the attack became clear. “It was devastating,” he said.
The DHS and its agencies have nearly eight times as many employees as the FBI, and calls for the department to play a more muscular role in combating domestic extremism have policymakers looking at new ways to use its resources.
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information that they say, sharing worries that they have with law enforcement, with the fbi. do you worry that that cooperation is weaker now because of the kind of rhetoric that has come out of this administration that may have weakened those interactions? david, i do worry about that. as you may recall, when i was secretary, i spent a lot of time in american muslim communities building those bridges, encouraging them to work with local law enforcement when they see someone going in the wrong direction. and that effort, i fear, has largely atrophied in this administration. and i think given the current homeland threat and the threat of self-radicalized actors, that s key to public safety. and it s something i spent a lot of time on when i was in office. i was the first secretary to address the convention of the islamic society of north america which is a huge gathering of american muslims every year in