House Homeland Security Committee members were told at a Feb. 2 hearing that right-wing violent extremism represents the greatest terrorism threat to the country. The evidence presented? A study that tracked terrorism plots and attacks in the United States from January 1994 to May 2020—the month left-wing violence began erupting around the country in response to the murder of George Floyd. “Far-right terrorism now significantly outpaces other forms of terrorism in the United States, including terrorism from far-left movements, and from individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda,” said American University professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, citing the June 2020 study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In citing the June 2020 report, Miller-Idriss omitted extremist violence from the summer of 2020, as well as terror plots and attacks that have occurred since then. The CSIS did perform a follow-up study in April 2021, finding that far-right extremists were responsible …
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