The State Department’s counterterrorism bureau has launched an intelligence-sharing initiative with governments of other countries to combat domestic terrorism—a system likened to the department’s international coordination against groups like Hezbollah. Chris Landberg, the State Department’s acting principal deputy coordinator for the counterterrorism bureau, told lawmakers about this program at a Nov. 17 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. The information follows recent revelations that the FBI has allegedly used counterterrorism tools to track threats against school board members—sparking criticism among conservatives that the Biden administration is using the national security state to chill dissent. Landberg said his department, the FBI, and the DHS will hold a forum with their international counterparts to “share information about trends and then coordinate our activities” to combat what the administration has termed “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” (REMVEs). “We’ve started something we modeled on a successful program in countering Hezbollah … where we bring …
State Department Building International Network to Counter Domestic Terrorism
November 17, 2021
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Executive BranchMerrick GarlandNational Strategy for countering domestic terrorismPoliticsState DepartmentUSWorld
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