Good morning, I'm Jordan Marie Smith from the Washington Post, and this is the Daily

202 for Wednesday, March 3rd.

In today's news, how it girls and women were treated by the media machine in the early

2000s, and community colleges are at a crossroads.

First, the big idea, FBI director Christopher A. Ray said Tuesday that his agents are pursuing

roughly 2,000 domestic terrorism cases.

The post-Devlin Barrett and Matt Zaptowski report that's a huge spike.

This comes at a time when the FBI tries to show it is taking the threat of such attacks

seriously, especially in the wake of January's pro-Trump riot.

Ray also defended the Bureau's handling of intelligence in advance of the attack on

the Capitol.

He said that agents rapidly shared what they were learning with other law enforcement agencies.

He also said that FBI officials will review internal practices, given how January 6th went.

At a hearing last week, the DC Police Chief and the former Capitol Police Chief said their

agencies had received the warning, but suggested the FBI should have more aggressively sounded

the alarm.

DC Police Chief Robert J. Conti III told lawmakers, quote, I would certainly think that something

is violent as an insurrection at the Capitol would warn a phone call or something.

Ray said the report was shared in three ways.

First, it was sent by email to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes

the DC and Capitol Police.

Second, it was posted on a law enforcement web portal, and third, it was mentioned in

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