The White House repeatedly rejected Department of Homeland Security’s (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.
“DHS is surging resources to the [domestic terrorism] issue, but they’re behind the curve because of lack of support from the White House,” one current senior administration official told CNN.
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JUST IN: Trump admin rejected DHS effort to make domestic terrorism higher priority: report https://t.co/nUmT3kKFVW pic.twitter.com/a9rhJBemYD
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