The Middle East Forum "Like his former boss Barack Obama, Joe Biden began his presidency by using the executive branch to treat his critics as "domestic terrorists." When it comes to counterterrorism, the Biden administration is proving to be the third Obama term.
"Within months of his inauguration, Obama directed the Department of Homeland Security away from Islamist terrorism and towards "right-wing terrorism." Biden is doing the same, but even more aggressively and with both the DHS and Department of Justice.
"On April 7, 2009, Obama signaled a shift away from the counterterrorism policies he inherited in an unclassified assessment titled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." It was prepared by the DHS's Extremism and Radicalization Branch, which had been focused on al-Qaida under the first DHS Director, Tom Ridge.". . .
Attorney General Merrick Garland, above with Biden and Obama in 2016, is helping refocus American counterterrorism policy on right-wing extremism.
Also, appropriately: The Obama administration purged terms like "jihad" and "Islamist" from government lexicon. |
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