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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,723 posts)
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 06:05 PM Apr 2021

Garland says DOJ is 'pouring its resources' into stopping domestic terrorists 'before they can

attack'

At a ceremony Monday commemorating the 26th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department is "pouring its resources into stopping domestic violent extremists before they can attack, prosecuting those who do, and battling the spread of the kind of hate that leads to tragedies like the one we mark here today."

The bombing targeted the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, and killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day care center. Domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing in 1997 and executed in 2001. Garland oversaw the bombing investigation and prosecution while working at the Justice Department in the 1990s, and said that even though "many years have passed, the terror perpetrated by people like Timothy McVeigh is still with us."

There has been a renewed focus on domestic extremism in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and in March, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wrote a report saying white supremacists and militias are the most lethal domestic threat. Often, these extremists "radicalize independently by consuming violent extremist material online and mobilize without direction from a violent extremist organization, making detection and disruption difficult," the report stated.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/garland-says-doj-pouring-resources-232540983.html
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Garland says DOJ is 'pouring its resources' into stopping domestic terrorists 'before they can (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
Here's a place to further the investigation NQAS Apr 2021 #1
Probably still being... 2naSalit Apr 2021 #2
What a difference a Democratic administration makes. I am grateful we have this AG. Hekate Apr 2021 #3

NQAS

(10,749 posts)
1. Here's a place to further the investigation
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 06:09 PM
Apr 2021

The Republican Party.

BTW, what’s the latest on the investigation of the January 5 Capitol tours by the co-conspirators? Asking for 71 million friends.

2naSalit

(86,320 posts)
2. Probably still being...
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 06:12 PM
Apr 2021

investigated by grand jury (juries). Won't hear about it until indictments are issued.

Hekate

(90,540 posts)
3. What a difference a Democratic administration makes. I am grateful we have this AG.
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 06:17 PM
Apr 2021
I remember the OK City bombing very well
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