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no bull and the aftermath.

What I would say is what we view as the most dangerous threat to Americans today is largely

loan actors, in some cases small cells, if you will.

Largely radicalized online, already here in the United States, attacking soft targets

using crude readily accessible weapons, motivated either by jihadist inspirations or by a variety

of domestic inspirations.

So we have the HVEs, the homegrown violent extremists, which are the jihadists inspired,

and we have the DVEs, the domestic violent extremists who are inspired by domestic sources.

That bucket, which have a lot in common with each other, is the greatest threat, the greatest

terrorism threat we face as a country.

I'm Benjamin Wittess and this is the LawFair podcast March 3rd, 2021.

FBI director Christopher A. Ray faced the Senate Judiciary Committee today to talk

about the January 6th riot and insurrection.

There was a lot of nonsense in the hearing, opening statements, repetitive questions,

and we got rid of it all for you. Every question and every answer is in what follows

only once.

The hearing covered whether the FBI had intelligence that the riot was planned for January 6th,

how it communicated what it knew to the Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police.

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