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I'm Will Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for December 10, 2022.

On November 30, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security released an updated National Terrorism

Advisory System, Bulletin, detailing various aspects of the heightened threat environment

the country finds itself in, including recent threats to faith-based communities, politically

motivated violence, and even domestic actors drawing inspiration from a Slovakian shooter

who espoused white supremacist beliefs.

In order to try and better understand how the government combats domestic violent extremists,

I chose an episode from April 2021.

In the episode, Benjamin Wittis sat down with Daniel Beignin and Mark Pitcavige to discuss

the threat of white supremacist groups, their weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and how

U.S. law enforcement can exploit those weaknesses to reduce the threat they pose.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast April 14, 2021.

A lot of people are expressing anxiety about white supremacist violent terrorism.

And yet in a new Brookings paper, Daniel Beignin and Mark Pitcavige say these movements

have really devastating weaknesses.

Beignin is of course LawFair's foreign policy editor and a senior fellow in the Brookings

Center for Middle East Policy.

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