In a viral video clip, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pressed a top FBI official over what she called 'discrepancies' between the FBI’s handling of violent white supremacists and Muslim extremists. But the facts are murkier:
In a video clip that has now gone viral, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pressed the FBI’s top counterterrorism official over what she called"discrepancies" between the FBI’s handling of violent white supremacists and Muslim extremists.
But Ocasio-Cortez doubled-down the next day, posting to Twitter: “[T]he FBI witness tried to say I was wrong. … but then we checked. I wasn’t.
As McGarrity told the House panel at the beginning of the more than three-hour hearing on Tuesday: “The FBI categorizes [terrorism] investigations into two main programs: international terrorism and domestic terrorism.” The FBI is currently investigating about 850 possible domestic terrorists and tracking another 1,000 potential “homegrown violent extremists,” according to McGarrity.
In 2017, the wife of the Orlando nightclub shooter was indicted on charges that said she “did knowingly aid and abet [her husband’s] attempted provision and provision of ‘material support or resources’ … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.” A federal jury acquitted her of the charges.
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