Congressional Committee Presented With Incomplete Terrorism Data

Congressional Committee Presented With Incomplete Terrorism Data
Light from the morning sun illuminates the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 3, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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House Homeland Security Committee members were told at a Feb. 2 hearing that right-wing violent extremism represents the greatest terrorism threat to the country.

The evidence presented? A study that tracked terrorism plots and attacks in the United States from January 1994 to May 2020—the month left-wing violence began erupting around the country in response to the murder of George Floyd.