Shootings Renew Debate Over How to Combat Domestic Terrorism
But former Obama administration officials say that the technology companies often balked at giving the government information that could help thwart international terrorists.
Administration officials regularly met with companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook to convince them that their platforms were harboring and fostering violent extremists, with mixed results.
“We cannot deter ideologically motivated terrorists by prosecuting the ones who successfully carry out plots,” Rod J. Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, said in an email interview.
A decade ago, a Department of Homeland Security official, Daryl Johnson, produced an intelligence report saying that right-wing extremism was a rising terrorism threat. Some Republicans denounced the report, and Mr. Johnson has said that, under political pressure, work related to right-wing extremism came to a halt and his group at the department was disbanded.
I read the long form version detailing the above, and it was pretty fascinating, but entirely explaining of how the failures to address this happened.
these Republicans find new ways to be terrible every day
