The FBI Agents Association on Tuesday demanded members of Congress codify domestic terrorism as a federal crime, warning it poses “a threat to the American people and our democracy”
The FBI Agents Association on Tuesday demanded members of Congress codify domestic terrorism as a federal crime, warning it poses “a threat to the American people and our democracy.”
The statement from the association, which is made up of more than 14,000 active and former FBI special agents, follows the Justice Department’s announcement Sunday that it is treating the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, as a case of domestic terrorism. “There’s a statutory definition of domestic terrorism. … This meets it,” John Bash, the U.S. attorney for West Texas, said Sunday at a news conference.
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