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(137,545 posts)(Bloomberg) -- The federal governments efforts to combat domestic terrorism are focused on stopping violence, not policing ideology, Attorney General Merrick Garland said as the Biden administration unveiled its strategy to prevent events such as the Jan. 6 Capitol siege from happening again.
Garland announced more details about the administrations approach on Tuesday, five months after the deadly assault on the Capitol by a mob of right-wing supporters of then-President Donald Trump. U.S. officials have said the most dangerous domestic threat for the foreseeable future comes from potential attacks by White supremacists.
We cannot promise that we will be able to disrupt every plot, diffuse every bomb or arrest every co-conspirator before they manage to wreak unspeakable horror, Garland said in a speech at the Justice Department in Washington. But we can promise that we will do everything in our power to prevent such tragedies.
In a nod to how people of all political beliefs have been victims of domestic terror attacks, Garland cited the Capitol attack, deadly violence at a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the shooting at Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice the same year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/garland-says-domestic-terror-focus-is-on-violence-not-ideology/ar-AAL3OBn