The US Daily Beast revealed that the FBI will hide a report that includes details about the terrorist threat posed by white supremacists in the United States.

And the site considered that the failure to disclose this legally required report on internal terrorism before the presidential elections next November is a violation of the law.

The office was supposed to publish its report last June, which includes a large amount of information, not available at the present time, about domestic terrorism, a classification that falls under the violence of supporters of white supremacy.

Under the National Defense Authorization Act, the FBI is required to define forms of domestic terrorism and ideologies related to this type of terrorism, and what the office and its partners are doing to combat it.

Whereas US President Donald Trump "falsely" described damage to property caused by leftists during their demonstrations as "terrorist acts," the suspicion is increasing that the FBI is seeking to prevent the American public from knowing the size of the first terrorist threat in the country before elections that may involve actions. Violence because of this same danger.

The Daily Beast website indicated - in its report - that the Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, is at odds with Trump, which made Democratic Representative Benny Thompson - who chairs the House National Security Committee - believe that it is unlikely that the current US administration will consider positively the report. FBI.

A rally for supporters of the far-right "Proud Boys" in Oregon (Anatolia)

The real terrorists

Thompson believes that it is necessary for the American people to know who the "real terrorists in this country are, based on the information of the Bureau of Investigation Intelligence", expressing his belief that Christopher Ray "if he is involved in this matter, he may be drowned or fired from his work."

The report - prepared under the National Defense Authorization Act - is supposed to include full details of the numbers of agents and intelligence data analysts to whom the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have been assigned the tasks of dealing with domestic terrorism, and violent incidents that have occurred since 2009, ending with the classification of domestic terrorism. And its relationship to other threats.

It is also supposed to detail the reasons that necessitate "the necessity to change officials, roles, or the size of resources and responsibilities within the federal government in order to be able to more effectively address domestic terrorist activities."

In a hearing before the House National Security Committee, Christopher Ray described the violence of white supremacists as constituting "the largest share" of domestic terrorism.

The Daily Beast considered that description as an "indirect admission that the terrorism of white supremacists, and not jihadist terrorism, is the main terrorist threat facing the United States in 2020."

He adds that it must be clear that the terrorism of white supremacists derives from 400 years of American history, and that there is no other form of terrorism that is comparable to the American in its lethality, resilience, and substance.

The Daily Beast report pointed to the recent success of the "FBI" in thwarting a plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmy, stressing that the campaigns of law enforcement agencies against white extremists have been steadily increasing, the most recent of which was the charges brought last week to members of a white racist gang operating in 3 American states. .

Elizabeth Newman, who served as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Counterterrorism Affairs from March 2018 to April 2020, says she has no doubt that the FBI is fully aware of all cases of this kind.

According to Mike German, a former FBI agent who infiltrated into white supremacist groups and arrested a number of them in the 1990s, law enforcement "if they are doing their job properly has to prove that by making a commitment to disclose the required information."

And he adds, "Those devices conceal information, which leads me to say that the statements of their officials - although I appreciate them - are nothing but recognition of the obvious."

According to the Daily Beast, a number of veterans of the US national security services warn of the possibility of an imminent danger of violence by white extremists in conjunction with the elections, and at the instigation of Trump himself, who claims that the Democrats are planning to steal the elections.

Elisa Slotkin, a Democrat in the House of Representatives and a former CIA analyst, expects such unrest, but believes the violence will not be on a large scale.

The American news site confirms that the discussions taking place in the corridors of the FBI about white racist terrorism are characterized by "ambiguity, lack of transparency and ambiguity."

The office classifies racist white supremacism within 11 subcategories of "observed" domestic terrorism, but a routine reorganization recently included it in a broader category called "violent extremism with racist motives."

This designation suggests that the terror of white supremacists equals violent extremism from non-whites "that does not exist," in the opinion of The Daily Beast.

The Daily Beast revealed that there are attempts to reduce the danger of white extremist terrorism in the United States (Reuters)

Low priority

More recently, since 2018, the FBI has deemed the extreme right a "low priority", but 2019 has been a critical year in the escalation of violence in this group.

Partial statistics - included in a report from the Department of Homeland Security - show that white racists were behind half of the 16 violent attacks committed in 2018 and 2019, all of which were attributed to local extremists, and that killed 39 people out of a total of 48.

The Daily Beast quoted an FBI official as saying that they had arrested 107 people who were "subject to investigation into issues related to domestic terrorism" in 2019, without specifying the number of white racists among them, and they also arrested 121 elements of international terrorism.

The official added that the office had arrested more people in the past two years who were subjected to an investigation related to domestic terrorism than were arrested in acts related to international terrorism.

Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Defenders, blames the FBI for targeting Muslims.

For a long time, she said, the office has been raising suspicions about American Muslim communities across the country.

She emphasized that the FBI "identifies and analyzes the commercial operations of Muslims, infiltrates the role of their worship, and teaches its small clients that Islam is the source of the terrorist threat to the country."

"We've been hearing a lot from law enforcement over the past two decades about their efforts to understand the motivations of Islamist groups, their methods of recruitment and their work, but we never heard anything about white supremacist groups," she said.