{"id":801789,"date":"2021-09-22T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=801789"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:29:51","slug":"fbi-director-wray-domestic-terrorism-tracking-has-exploded-fbi-has-prioritized-threat-from-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-wray-domestic-terrorism-tracking-has-exploded-fbi-has-prioritized-threat-from-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Wray: Domestic Terrorism Tracking Has \u2018Exploded,\u2019 FBI Has \u2018Prioritized\u2019 Threat From \u2018White Supremacy\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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-director-wray-domestic-terrorism-tracking-has-exploded-fbi-has-prioritized-threat-from-white-supremacy%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=801789&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Christopher-Wray.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the FBI\u2019s domestic terrorism tracking has \u201cexploded\u201d in the past year with most of the surge attributed to a rise in \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wray testified before the Senate Homeland Security committee on the terror landscape threatening the United States two decades after 9-11 on Tuesday. Wray said that the terror threats facing the country are on the rise domestically while holding level internationally, leading to an overall increase in the FBI\u2019s counter-terrorism work. Much of that increase is driven by \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d Wray claimed. As <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/573285-wray-says-fbi-domestic-terrorism-caseload-has-exploded-since-last-year?rl=1\">The Hill<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"31\">\n<p><em>\u201cSince the spring of 2020, so for the past 16, 18 months or so, we have more than doubled our domestic terrorism caseload from about 1,000 to around 2,700 investigations, and we have surged personnel to match, more than doubling the amount of people working that threat than the year before,\u201d Wray testified during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on threats to the homeland. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCertainly, the domestic terrorism caseload has exploded, and meanwhile the international terrorism caseload hasn\u2019t subsided,\u201d Wray said later during questioning from senators. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wray noted that the \u201cbiggest chunk\u201d of racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism the FBI tracks is now \u201cfavoring white supremacy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe collect information about that threat. We have, as you say, prioritized that threat at a national threat priority level,\u201d Wray said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The FBI director said that the bureau has dedicated a substantial amount of resources to arresting and prosecuting those involved in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which the bureau views as an act of domestic terrorism. Wray said in his written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/testimony\/threats-to-the-homeland-evaluating-the-landscape-20-years-after-911-wray-092121\">statement<\/a> to the committee:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>FBI special agents, intelligence analysts, and professional staff have been hard at work gathering evidence, sharing intelligence, and working with federal prosecutors to bring charges against the individuals involved. As we have said consistently, we do not and will not tolerate violent extremists who use the guise of First Amendment-protected activity to engage in violent criminal activity. Thus far, the FBI has arrested hundreds of individuals with regards to rioting, assault on a federal officer, property crimes violations, and conspiracy charges, and the work continues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Overall, the FBI assesses that the January 6 siege of the Capitol Complex demonstrates a willingness by some to use violence against the government in furtherance of their political and social goals. This ideologically motivated violence\u2014domestic terrorism\u2014underscores the symbolic nature of the National Capital Region and the willingness of some domestic violent extremists to travel to events in this area and violently engage law enforcement and their perceived adversaries. The American people should rest assured that we will continue to work to hold accountable those individuals who participated in the violent breach of the Capitol on January 6 and any others who attempt to use violence to intimidate, coerce, or influence the American people or affect the conduct of our government.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the FBI\u2019s investigation into the January 6 riot continues, the bureau has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fbi-finds-scant-evidence-that-january-6-riot-was-result-of-organized-plot-to-overturn-election-reuters\">found<\/a> little evidence that the riot was a result of some kind of \u201corganized plot\u201d to overturn the November election. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have so far arrested hundreds of people in connection with the riot, though they have yet to turn up significant evidence that the riot was coordinated. The FBI has found evidence that several groups intended to break into the Capitol building that day, but the groups did not make any kind of plan of what to accomplish once inside.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the FBI\u2019s domestic terrorism tracking has \u201cexploded\u201d in the past year with most of the surge attributed to a rise in \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201dWray testified &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801789","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=801789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}