The Justice Department shed light on the reasons behind the doubling of domestic terrorism cases since early 2020, with a top DOJ official saying prosecutions related to the Capitol riot make up “at least a significant portion of that jump.”
Matt Olsen, the assistant attorney general in charge of DOJ’s National Security Division, told the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that “the number of FBI investigations of suspected domestic violent extremism has more than doubled since the spring of 2020.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin , a member of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot, asked Olsen if the jump in domestic terrorism investigations has led to a jump in indictments, excluding Jan. 6 prosecutions. Attorney General Merrick Garland compared the Capitol Riot to the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 when unveiling the Justice Department’s response to the Biden administration’s new anti-domestic terrorism strategy last June.
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