{"id":190255,"date":"2021-03-04T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190255"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:33:34","slug":"fbi-says-biggest-domestic-terror-threats-in-2021-are-violent-extremists-motivated-by-race-or-anti-authority-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-says-biggest-domestic-terror-threats-in-2021-are-violent-extremists-motivated-by-race-or-anti-authority-views\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Says Biggest Domestic Terror Threats in 2021 Are Violent Extremists Motivated by Race or Anti-Authority Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-says-biggest-domestic-terror-threats-in-2021-are-violent-extremists-motivated-by-race-or-anti-authority-views%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190255&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The greatest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-domestic-terrorism\">domestic terrorism<\/a> threats facing the United States in 2021 come from\u00a0racially motivated or antigovernment violent extremists, a<span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0senior FBI<\/span>\u00a0counterterrorism official told Congressional committees looking into the\u00a0Jan. 6 Capitol breach\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking forward, the FBI assesses there is an elevated threat of violence from domestic violent extremists, and some of these actors have been emboldened in the aftermath of the breach of the U.S. Capitol,\u201d <span lang=\"en-US\">Jill Sanborn, Assistant Director in charge of the counterterrorism division of the FBI,<\/span> <span lang=\"en-US\">told the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Rules and Administration (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rules.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Testimony_Sanborn.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, antigovernment or anti-authority violent extremists, and other domestic violent extremists citing partisan political grievances will very likely pose the greatest domestic terrorism threats in 2021 and likely into 2022,\u201d <span lang=\"en-US\">Sanborn said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She added that\u00a0known driving factors of domestic violence extremism include \u201cracism, anti-Semitism, perceived government or law enforcement overreach, socio-political conditions, and personal grievances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Sanborn\u2019s official warning came right after she said she didn\u2019t know of any firearms being recovered from the breach of the U.S. Capitol, after <a href=\"https:\/\/everytownresearch.org\/report\/armed-extremism-us-capitol\/\">reports<\/a> of \u201carmed groups\u201d being involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) about whether firearms were recovered or if any suspect was charged with firearms offenses, FBI counterterrorism chief Jill Sanborn responded: \u201cTo my knowledge, none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3552222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Senate-Homeland-Security-Committee-Chairman-Ron-Johnson-700x420-600x360-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chairman Ron Johnson\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) speaks at the start of a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the government\u2019s response to the CCP virus outbreak in Washington, on March 5, 2020. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>But in the hearing, Sanborn said that before the Jan. 6 incident, \u201cWe knew they would be armed, we had intelligence that they would be coming to D.C., but we did not have intelligence that they would be breaching the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The armed individuals related to Jan. 6 appear to have been arrested by law enforcement outside the Capitol building, including 33-year-old Christopher Alberts, who officers <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/m94rQ\">pushed back<\/a>\u00a0from the Capitol after suspecting he had a firearm in his possession. They were right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/WVhTM\">armed<\/a> individual arrived in D.C. on Jan. 7, a day after the breach, and threatened to proceed to kill the Speaker of the House. A third man, retired veteran\u00a0Lonnie Coffman from\u00a0Alabama, was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/qPEdn#selection-1819.0-1819.14\">arrested<\/a> at his vehicle as he returned from the Capitol. Police found\u00a0nearly a dozen Molotov cocktail explosive devices in his pickup truck, as well as a number of guns, ammunition, and concerning handwritten notes.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">All men faced firearms charges, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/thirteen-charged-federal-court-following-riot-united-states-capitol\">among other charges<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johnson previously told news outlets that the term \u201carmed insurrection\u201d used by some Democratic officials, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and mainstream news outlets is incorrect as no guns were recovered. The only shooting involved an officer-involved shooting that left one protester, Ashli Babbitt, dead. The officer\u2019s identity has yet to be disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say, if it\u2019s properly termed an \u2018armed insurrection,\u2019 it was a pretty ragtag one,\u201d Johnson said in an interview with The New York Times last week. \u201cThis didn\u2019t seem like an armed insurrection to me. When you hear the word \u2018armed,\u2019 don\u2019t you think of firearms? Here\u2019s the questions I would have liked to ask: How many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired?\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson added: \u201cIf that was a planned armed insurrection, you really have a bunch of idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator\u2019s comments drew a rebuke from media pundits and congressional Democrats, who attempted to characterize him as someone who is sympathetic to the rioters.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack Phillips and Melanie Sun contributed to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest domestic terrorism threats facing the United States in 2021 come from\u00a0racially motivated or antigovernment violent extremists, a\u00a0senior FBI\u00a0counterterrorism official told Congressional committees looking into the\u00a0Jan. 6 Capitol breach\u00a0on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Senate-Homeland-Security-Committee-Chairman-Ron-Johnson-700x420-600x360-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI Says Biggest Domestic Terror Threats in 2021 Are Violent Extremists Motivated by Race or Anti-Authority Views","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Senate-Homeland-Security-Committee-Chairman-Ron-Johnson-700x420-600x360-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI Says Biggest Domestic Terror Threats in 2021 Are Violent Extremists Motivated by Race or Anti-Authority Views","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}