As government officials and activists debate the best way to pursue violent extremists, the figures show how much of counter-terrorism work goes undeclared and unnoticed.
A display of firearms and ammunition that was seized from Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, who prosecutors say is a white nationalist who was plotting terrorism.
The arrest last month of Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson, 49, is the latest example of this pattern. Prosecutors have alleged Hasson is a white nationalist inspired in part by mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who in 2011 unleashed two attacks in Norway that killed 77 people. Last year, out of about 100 such arrests, only nine defendants faced terrorism charges — a drop-off owed in part to a decline in the number of people attempting to travel overseas to join Islamic State, the senior law enforcement official said.
Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said the figures explain how counter-terrorism work is done. Prosecutors have labeled Hasson a “domestic terrorist” who planned to murder innocent civilians. His lawyer, Julie Stelzig, said that the government’s description is “histrionic” and that there was “no actual indication of any plan. ... It’s not a crime to think negative thoughts. It’s not a crime to think about doomsday scenarios.”
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