{"id":3495,"date":"2014-06-03T15:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2014-06-03T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:07:32","slug":"u-s-revives-group-to-fight-homegrown-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/06\/u-s-revives-group-to-fight-homegrown-extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. revives group to fight homegrown extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/p4.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Oklahoma-city-bombing-sofrep-630x433.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3497\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Oklahoma-city-bombing-sofrep-630x433-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma-city-bombing-sofrep-630x433\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Oklahoma-city-bombing-sofrep-630x433-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Oklahoma-city-bombing-sofrep-630x433-150x103.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Oklahoma-city-bombing-sofrep-630x433-400x274.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Oklahoma-city-bombing-sofrep-630x433.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States is re-establishing a law enforcement group to fight those it designates as domestic terrorists, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Following hate-motivated shootings such as the one at a Jewish Community Center in Kansas City, Missouri in April, federal prosecutors have pressed the need to coordinate intelligence about such criminals on a national level, Justice Department officials told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States remains concerned about threats from Islamic extremist groups, but other motives for attacks within U.S. borders must also be watched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice,&#8221; Holder said in announcing the group, named the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/06\/03\/us-usa-security-homegrown-idUSKBN0EE1R420140603\">U.S. revives group to fight homegrown extremists | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is re-establishing a law enforcement group to fight those it designates as domestic terrorists, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Following hate-motivated shootings such as the one at a Jewish Community Center in Kansas City, Missouri in April, federal prosecutors have pressed the need to coordinate intelligence about such criminals on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9],"tags":[1725,1724,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}