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https://thegrio.com/2017/01/31/fbi-investigates-white-supremacist-law-enforcement/Snip
According to a classified FBI Counterterrorism Policy Guide from April 2015, obtained by The Intercept, the FBI has been aware of the growing threat that white supremacists and others pose as they continue to find a hold in the nations law enforcement agencies, but the FBI has been reluctant to publicly address the issue or even publicly comment on the threat of white supremacy itself.
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He then noted, Local, state, federal agencies, all to some extent have their hands tied, because its not necessarily against the law to be a member of a domestic hate group, specifically citing the fact that the KKK is classified as a hate group, but it is not illegal to be in the KKK.
This is a fundamental problem in this country: We simply do not take this flexible, and forgiving, and exceptionally understanding approach for combating any other form of terrorism, said Samuel Jones, a professor of law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago . Anybody whos on social media advocating support for ISIS can be criminally charged with very little effort.
For some reason, we have stepped away from the threat of domestic terrorism and right-wing extremism, Jones continued. The only way we can reconcile this kind of behavior is if we accept the possibility that the ideology that permeates white nationalists and white supremacists is something that many in our federal and law enforcement communities understand and may be in sympathy with.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Jacoby365
(450 posts)tblue37
(64,979 posts)Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)NAMBLA and also be on the police force. Why can't they just make it a rule that you can't be a member of a white nationalist organization? Obviously they cannot do their job with their ingrown attitudes.
malaise
(267,797 posts)and don't forget this
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456617-white-house-dismissed-homeland-security-push-to-focus-more-on
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White House dismissed Homeland Security push to focus more on domestic terrorism: report
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The White House repeatedly rejected the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) efforts to increase focus on domestic terrorism, CNN reported on Wednesday.
For more than a year, the White House rebuffed a DHS push to make domestic terror a higher priority as part of the National Counterterrorism Strategy, according to the network, citing current and former senior administration officials and other sources close to the administration.
"Ultimately the White House just added one paragraph about domestic terrorism as a throw-away line in the National Counterterrorism Strategy, a senior source involved in the discussion reportedly said.
The final version of the strategy focuses overwhelmingly on Islamic terrorism and includes a paragraph about other forms of violent extremism, including racially motivated extremism, militia groups and environmentalist extremists, with no specific mention of white supremacists.