The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday announced it will review its processes for assessing threats of domestic extremism.
In a memo, Secretary Alejandro MayorkasAlejandro MayorkasDHS to review process for responding to domestic extremism Texas, Stephen Miller sue to force deportation of children, other migrants due to pandemic Koch groups call on administration to release all temporary worker visas MORE tasks a new internal team with determining how to report and respond to domestic extremism.
“Recent events, including the January 6th attacks on the U.S. Capitol, have highlighted that domestic violent extremism poses the most lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat to our country today,” Mayorkas wrote in the memo. “Given the evolving threat landscape and the grave risks posed by domestic violent extremism, including to our employees and operations, I have directed the department to immediately begin a review of how to best prevent, detect, and respond to domestic violent extremism threats within DHS.”
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DHS is facing a number of inquiries from various congressional committees about its own role in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and how they assessed information and relayed it to other agencies.
The announcement comes at the expiration of a bulletin DHS issued just days after President BidenJoe BidenOvernight Defense: Supreme Court to hear Gitmo detainee’s request for information on CIA-sponsored torture | General says preparations for Afghanistan withdrawal underway | Army replacing head of criminal investigations division How to get Americans on board with Biden’s bold climate goals OSHA sends draft emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 to OMB review MORE was sworn in that warned: “Some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.”
The order also follows a sweeping review of domestic extremism by the intelligence community that determined that militia groups and white nationalists, in particular, pose a heightened threat.
“Narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the US Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence—will almost certainly spur some [domestic violent extremists] to try to engage in violence this year,” according to the report.
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