Posted on May 13, 2021

White Supremacist Groups Pose Rising U.S. Threat, Garland Says

Mark Hosenball, Reuters, May 12, 2021

Domestic violent extremist groups, particularly white supremacists, pose a growing threat to the United States, Attorney General Merrick Garland told a Senate panel on Wednesday.

“The threat of lethality is higher than it ever was … I have not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the U.S. Capitol” by rioters on Jan. 6, said Garland, who as a prosecutor led the investigation into the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

Garland noted the FBI recently said that the top domestic violent extremist threat facing the United States is from “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.”

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