by Tyler Durden
On Wednesday night, President Joe Biden told a Congress that
white supremacy is terrorism, after claiming that US intelligence considers it the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today.
Hours earlier, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) set the stage for the new narrative by telling
MSNBC s Nicol Wallace that The predominant part of that domestic threat is white nationalists, adding
We can’t ignore that because of a political sensitivity that some of the folks are part of the Trump base.
Less than 24 hours later,
Bloomberg is reporting that the Biden DOJ is actively considering whether to seek a new law which would allow prosecutors to bring specific charges for domestic terrorists who plot and/or carry out attacks, according to a senior department official.
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Police release tear gas into a crowd of pro-Trump protesters during clashes at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
The Justice Department is looking into ways to tighten federal criminal law to make it easier to prosecute alleged domestic terrorists, a top Justice Department official told Congress on Thursday.
Brad Wiegmann, deputy chief of the Justice Department s national security division, noted that U.S. federal prosecutors can charge suspected foreign militants with material support for terrorism, but that there is no parallel law prosecutors can use against suspected domestic terrorists.
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The Biden, Harris trips could define what the next 1,000 days look like.
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President Biden’s 100-day progress report
Here’s how President Joe Biden is doing with the initiatives he promised for his first 100 days in office. Melina Mara/Pool via Getty Images
It may feel like a campaign or, at least, a pandemic-era one, with car rallies, masks and social-distancing protocols. What they re campaigning for is both an agenda and a way to open a path toward getting items on that list done.
But is the path of bipartisanship of getting significant or even any Republican support for the White House agenda really still open? Harris will be in deep-blue Baltimore on Thursday, with Biden in Georgia a state that, like Maryland, now has two Democratic senators.
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Crossword Buff
Brad Wiegmann unveils, unmasks and undresses his debut Sunday puzzle.
Buffaloes in the snow in the Big West, South Dakota.Credit.Kristina Barker for The New York Times
Feb. 27, 2021
SUNDAY PUZZLE Our constructor today, Brad Wiegmann, is brand-new, a babe in the woods, an innocent lamb. Mr. Wiegmann embarked on his dream of making a crossword over a year ago, while on vacation from his job as a national security lawyer for the United States Department of Justice. Make of that what you will.
In his introduction to the print puzzle, Will Shortz (possibly channeling his inner Randy Newman) suggests that solvers put on their “silly puns” hats before they begin. You will need your thinking cap, too, because we have widespread trivia, some of it ornately clued, some unadorned but challenging.