El Paso shooting: Has US neglected fight against white extremism?
FBI officials say their investigations have kept apace with the rising threat from these groups.
But others disagree with Wray's assessment of the bureau's work. They say that regardless of the number of arrests that have been made over the past several months, FBI agents and other federal authorities have paid less attention than they should to fighting right-wing extremism in the US. Of this amount, spending on homeland security - or keeping people within the US safe - accounted for 35% or approximately $979bn.
He says that there is another element that contributes to the authorities' relatively low-key treatment of white-supremacist groups: an underlying current of racism in this country."The officials haven't been as exercised by a threat from within - and by people who look like them - as they were by a threat from without and with an alien ideology. After all, white supremacist ideology has been an element of the American way of life since long before the civil war.
The radicalisation process took months or years. Now, he says:"It's just a couple weeks." This makes it harder for federal authorities to ferret out the violent plots and to find the individuals who are planning an assault.A vigil outside the White House after a white supremacist killed a woman in Charlottesville, VirginiaMany people question whether US officials are well placed in their efforts to face the new threats from right-wing extremists.
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