The FBI has created a new category that “inappropriately” combines white supremacist incidents with those involving “Black identity extremists,” the senators wrote Thursday.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow May 2 at 6:50 PM A group of Democratic senators, including three 2020 presidential candidates, on Thursday called for the FBI to rescind a recent change to the way it classifies domestic terrorist incidents, arguing that the move plays down the threat of white supremacy.
“Given the large number of white supremacist attacks, we are deeply concerned that this reclassification downplays the significance of the white supremacist threat,” they said. “If we do not understand the scope of the problem, we cannot effectively address it.”The senators said the Justice Department and FBI revealed the change in a briefing last week with Judiciary Committee staffers that took place “nearly six months after the briefing was requested.
Trump responded by arguing that he was referring not to the self-professed neo-Nazi marchers but to those who had opposed the removal of a statue of the “great” Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
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