DHS: WHITE SUPREMACY IS ‘MOST LETHAL THREAT’ USA FACES IN 2020
White supremacy is more dangerous than COVID, China, or Antifa
A draft assessment from the Department of Homeland Security claims that white supremacy is the “most lethal threat” faced by the United States of America, and will remain the most lethal threat through the end of 2021, despite ongoing civil unrest and violence in the streets of many American cities, a Chinese virus that inspired the lockdown of much of the country, and increased saber rattling from the country’s largest geopolitical competitor, China.
Lawfare Blog editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes posted the draft statement to Twitter, writing that “the first version of the report, which is from 8/19/2020, states baldly that white supremacist actors are the biggest threat right now.”
The document claims that “lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a diverse array” of “personal factors will pose the primary terrorist threat to the united States.”
“Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists – who increasingly are working with likeminded persons abroad – will pose the most persistent and lethal threat,” the DHS document continues.
The first version of the report, which is from 8/19/2020, states baldly that white supremacist actors are the biggest threat right now. Here's the discussion in the executive summary up top: pic.twitter.com/m7NE9LMPC1
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 4, 2020