Tuesday, March 2, 2021
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — In his first major public appearance since the storming of the Capitol, FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized the attack as “domestic terrorism” and part of the evolving threat posed by ideological extremists.
Wray warned that Jan. 6 was “not an isolated event.” The problem of domestic terrorism has been “metastasizing” and “it’s not going away anytime soon,” he said.
During his tenure, the agency’s domestic terrorism caseload doubled to about 2,000. Racially motivated violent extremism accounts for the largest chunk of those cases, with white supremacist violence leading as the most persistent and lethal threat. …
