FBI must target white supremacists' infiltration of police agencies, congressman says

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Jamie Raskin calls on FBI director to brief Congress on longstanding issue after police officers were involved in Capitol attack
The FBI must develop a strategy to respond to white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement agencies and address its past failures to take the issue seriously, a prominent Democratic congressman has argued in a letter to the FBI director, Christopher Wray.
Multiple internal FBI reports over the past 15 years have labeled white supremacist infiltration of police departments as serious threat. But last year, FBI officials refused to testify in a hearing about the topic, repeatedly telling congressional staffers that “it did not believe that this threat was supported by evidence” and “that there would not be any utility in the bureau offering testimony”, the Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin wrote in a letter to Wray on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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