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By snakeoil
#116042
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019 ... ef=d-river
Homegrown extremism is rising, one year after the Trump administration cut funding to programs that counter hate groups.

A rise in domestic extremism has U.S. law enforcement officials scrambling to keep up. Currently, the FBI has 850 active investigations into domestic terrorism, up from last year, a top counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday. Officials couldn’t compare it to a year before but, when asked, said the number was definitely trending up.

“The velocity in which we are working our cases, both on the domestic terrorism side and the international terrorism side, with homegrown violent extremists, that velocity is much quicker than its ever been before,” Michael McGarrity, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, told the House Homeland Security Committee.

Just last week, a 19-year-old man opened fire in a California synagogue, killing one person and wounding three more in an attack believed to be an anti-Semitic hate crime. That follows the April burning of three black churches in Louisiana under suspicious circumstances, the October attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead, and more avowed or suspected hate crimes.
By sillydaddy
#116043
The FBI, under the umbrella of the Justice Department, is the main entity that investigates terrorism. We found no evidence that Trump has cut back investigative funds for the FBI......
In the final days of Obama’s tenure, the Homeland Security announced 31 groups would be awarded a total of $10 million in grants. (The Justice Department was part of a CVE task force, but it was Homeland Security that awarded the grants.)...
Once Trump took office, his administration froze the grants. Then, in June 2017, the Homeland Security released a list of 26 grant recipients.
Some of the awardees named under Obama had dropped out, citing fears of anti-Muslim bias under the new president.....
Indeed, our review of the accepted projects showed that these grant applicants were strongly centered around working with Muslims, immigrants or refugees; white supremacists were scarcely mentioned.


https://www.politifact. ...

YOU CAN READ THE REST FOR YOURSELF...
By johnforbes
#116050
Sow, sew...

As to funding to counter such groups, that is lunacy.

Blaming Trump for everything which goes wrong in the world is both juvenile and stupid, and that remains true even though most leftist media outlets do it daily.
By Clownkicker
#116054
You mean, like blaming Obama for everything which goes wrong in the world is both juvenile and stupid, and that remains true even though most rightist media outlets do it daily?

You better watch out, johnny. Your partisan hypocrite equals in the Trump Administration aren't going to like that view.

Even RealTool will be upset by it. If they can't blame Obama for everything that goes wrong this year, then they will only have the President to blame, and that will make their heads explode.
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By RealJustme
#116059
Currently, the FBI has 850 active investigations into domestic terrorism, up from last year, a top counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday. Officials couldn’t compare it to a year before but, when asked, said the number was definitely trending up
Trump has returned the FBI to investigating "crimes" instead of political advisories as Obama had them doing. Obama pulled the intel agencies off of spying on threats against the United States and targeted them against threats to his agenda.

Plus Snake, how do you sew the wind?
By sillydaddy
#116060
You mean, like blaming Obama for everything which goes wrong in the world is both juvenile and stupid

Clown..so you are saying,
liberals do not blame Trump for anything that goes wrong in the world ...
because that would be juvenile and stupid... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
By Clownkicker
#116063
sillydummy, there is a YUGE difference between inquiring if liberals "do not blame Trump for anything that goes wrong" and saying "liberals blame Trump for everything that goes wrong."

Maybe you should sign up for those ESL classes with RealTool.
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By RealJustme
#116070
Tool still can't tell us how Trump can be a "shoe in". What a surprise. He nit picks others for his own failings and flaws.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: You did it again clown. Why do you continue to set yourself up?
By Clownkicker
#116118
^^^^^^^^ See, johnny, yet one more conservative who doesn't speak English but thinks he does.

That's what your people are like. It should make you question your beliefs. They align 100% with those of idiots.
By johnforbes
#116121
Come on, the markets were down big today on trade concerns.

It is in the low 40s, with steady rain pounding on the "roof" of the cardboard box in which I'm now residing.

Were it not for "free" Wi FI near the parking lot of the convenience store where Elkin is a cashier, I'd be offline.
By Clownkicker
#116128
So you're trying to say sillydummy's ignorance today is understandable and justified because of Trump's disastrous trade policies?

That's quite a stretch, even for a conservative.
By johnforbes
#116140
America has been losing the trade war for decades.

Trump is at least trying to fight it, and that is a good thing.

On the negative side, it was 40 F at dawn and my cardboard box was a tad chilly.

On the plus side, panhandling in the parking lot of a convenience store is a wonderful opportunity to meet people.
By elklindo69
#116149
Johnnie....I think it's pretty unfair of us to expect the guy who doesn't understand how science works or how campaign finance law works or how not cheating on your wife works or how running a casino works or how closing a fucking umbrella for fuck's sake works to suddenly understand how tariffs work.
By elklindo69
#116235
I wonder if farmers will have to take a drug test before they receive their Trump Trade War welfare payments.

And on a side note....I don't ever remember when Obama called a bunch of Nazi's "nice guys."
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