Another Reminder That White Supremacists Aren’t the Only Threat to the Homeland

An attack last weekend follows a pattern of extremist violence that defies the Biden administration’s threat analysis.

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Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting walks outside a police precinct in New York, N.Y., April 13, 2022.

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When Trevor Bickford’s mother called police in Wells, Maine, with concerns about her son’s growing obsession with Islam, Wells police captain Gerald Congdon notified the FBI, which purportedly put Bickford on its so-called Guardian Watchlist. That didn’t stop him from allegedly attacking NYPD officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve in an attempt to “carry out jihad.” If only she had told authorities that she was concerned about her son’s growing obsession with white supremacism, the attack might have been thwarted. That’s because the FBI and the Biden administration (it’s getting harder to distinguish one from the other) have been laser-focused for the last two years on white, MAGA, QAnon types to the exclusion of all others, including jihadist sympathizers.

Biden’s national-security “experts,” such as DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who incredibly claims that “the Southern border is under control,” and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who treats parents who object to their children’s school curricula as domestic terrorists, are obsessed with the same villains that the Obama administration chased.

A. J. Caschetta

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A. J. Caschetta

A. J. Caschetta is a Milstein fellow at the Middle East Forum, chief political correspondent at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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