The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation told Congress on Thursday that anarchist and extremist 'Antifa' demonstrators who engaged in recent violent protests are targets of serious FBI investigations.
- The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation told Congress on Thursday that anarchist and extremist “Antifa” demonstrators who engaged in recent violent protests are targets of serious FBI investigations.
At a hearing of the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security committee, Christopher Wray said that the Bureau had seen “organized tactical activity at both the local and regional level.” Antifa, short for anti-fascist, is an amorphous movement"who believe in active, aggressive opposition to far right-wing movements," accordingWray stressed that while there are active probes into Antifa and other extremist groups, these organizations numerically are much smaller in number. He said that peaceful protesters, as well as criminal opportunists, who engaged in low-level vandalism and looting outnumber organized extremist groups.
Acting DHS deputy secretary Kenneth Cuccinelli, who earlier this summer had strongly emphasized the role of anarchists in urban protests, at Thursday’s hearing acknowledged there was evidence that white supremacists carried out the most lethal incidents in recent years.
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