FBI Director Wray says white supremacist violence is fueling most domestic terrorism: 'I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence.'
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the bureau has made"about the same number" of domestic terrorism arrests as international terrorism arrests so far this year and that a majority of domestic cases are motivated by white supremacy.
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin immediately challenged Wray, pointing to an FBI/DHS intelligence report from May 2017 which found that white supremacists were responsible for more homicides from 2000 to 2016 than any other domestic extremist movement. According to Wray, the FBI has made about 100 arrests related to domestic terrorism in the first three quarters of 2019. That is roughly equal, he said, to the amount of arrests related to instances of international terrorism like ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
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