Over the past 2 years, DHS has made cuts to personnel and resources that were previously devoted to fighting domestic terrorism.
WASHINGTON — Two mass shootings within just 24 hours have called into question the amount of resources that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have devoted to spotting and thwartingThe top two members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Monday, renewing their request for information on how the Justice Department is carrying out its mission to protect Americans from domestic terrorism.
The government defines domestic terrorism as acts motivated not by foreign ideologies, like Islamic extremism, but U.S.-based ideologies, like white supremacy.In June, Brette Steele, the former regional director of strategic engagement in the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Terrorism and Prevention Partnerships, testified before Congress about the drastic cuts she has witnessed since 2017.— as well as the prevention of other terror threats to the U.S.
Yet there is still a resource disparity at the FBI. Michael McGarrity, the FBI's counterterrorism chief, told Congress in May that 80 percent of FBI field agents and analysts are devoted to working on matters of international terrorism, including home-grown jihadist extremists. Twenty percent are working on domestic terrorism, including white supremacists.
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