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Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism is a form of terrorism in which victims "within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship" as the victims. [1] There are various different definitions of terrorism , with no universal agreement about it.
In the United States, domestic terrorism is defined as terrorist acts that were carried out within the United States by U.S. citizens and/or U.S. permanent residents. [1] As of 2021, the United States government considers white supremacists to be the top domestic terrorism threat.
Domestic terrorism differs from international terrorism not only in its geographic scope but also in how the government prosecutes it. Under federal law, damaging energy facilities that causes ...
The report suggests that the federal government’s ability to effectively measure and respond to the threat of domestic terrorism may, in part, be hampered by the fact that the FBI and DHS have ...
Instances of domestic terrorism are on the rise in the US, particularly in the last decade. There were 529 incidents of terrorism between 2011 and 2021, according to the University of Maryland’s ...
FBI Director Christopher Wray bluntly labeled the January riot at the U.S. Capitol as “domestic terrorism” Tuesday and warned of a rapidly growing threat of homegrown violent extremism that ...
“Domestic terrorism — driven by hate, bigotry, and other forms of extremism — is a stain on the soul of America,” Biden, who's traveling in Europe, said in a statement.
The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act was a proposed law that would have created domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).