Although 'domestic terrorism' is defined in the Patriot Act of 2001, there is no specific federal crime covering acts of terrorism inside the U.S. that are not connected to international terror groups or their sympathizers.
"Somebody's going to have to make a determination about when a certain group crosses the line — you're getting into some really hairy constitutional questions," said Raymond Holcomb, a former FBI counterterrorism investigator.
At a basic level, she said, a domestic terrorism statute could provide an organizing principal to redirect government resources at the domestic terrorism problem. A domestic terror statute would allow the FBI more latitude to monitor internet activity by people espousing racist violence, McCord said. As a practical matter, the FBI's counter terrorism division has more investigative resources. And terrorism analysis also conducted by a separate agency the National Counter Terrorism Center, whose analysts can sift through both international and domestic intelligence databases to map connections between extremists at home and abroad.
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