The greatest domestic terrorism threats facing the United States in 2021 come from racially motivated or antigovernment violent extremists, a senior FBI counterterrorism official told Congressional committees looking into the Jan. 6 Capitol breach on Wednesday.
“Looking forward, the FBI assesses there is an elevated threat of violence from domestic violent extremists, and some of these actors have been emboldened in the aftermath of the breach of the U.S. Capitol,” Jill Sanborn, Assistant Director in charge of the counterterrorism division of the FBI, told the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Rules and Administration (pdf).
