This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Thursday, March 14th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

New data from the FBI indicates that homegrown terrorists pose a relatively more significant threat

than foreign-born terrorists.

But what's the appropriate law enforcement response to that information?

Patrick Eddington is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute.

We spoke this week.

The Washington Post reviewed information from the FBI to,

which is basically counting up arrests for terrorism, or what were believed to be terrorism,

breaking them up by domestic and foreign.

And according to that data, the people who were most likely to be arrested were domestic outpacing those who were inspired by some

foreign idea and so if you're a DC insider, if you're sort of a standard operator in Washington, D.C.

Your conclusion might be, well, we just need to create a new list for these people and define relatively more people as terrorists.

There must be lists.

So what do we know about, obviously this is not, doesn't go through details of the arrests so we don't necessarily know how many of these are bona fide

Terrorism. That's our first red flag. Yeah, so what what do we what do we know about it at this point?

What we know is that the FBI handed over this data to the Washington Post and the post elected to write a story on the basis of that data.

What we do find out from the story on the

what we do find out from the story is that one particular individual

who the FBI originally claimed to the judge was absolutely a bona fide terrorist threat. They got him in a sting in which he went out and bought some bomb components but the Bureau

Agent undercover somehow handling. some bomb components but the bureau agent under cover somehow handily provided the rest of the material

necessary for this alleged plot. But even after the sting they let the guy walk the street for two months and so the

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