From Nixon to Biden, US Domestic Counterterrorism Policy Plagued by Politics: Historians

From Nixon to Biden, US Domestic Counterterrorism Policy Plagued by Politics: Historians
Law enforcement officers walk out of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington on Jan. 28, 2019. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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The Biden administration’s assessment that domestic violent extremism is one of the greatest threats facing the United States isn’t the first time the federal government has made such a declaration.
Some 50 years ago, President Richard Nixon made a similar statement, deeming “revolutionary terrorism” as the gravest threat facing the homeland.