Civil rights leaders are warning that President Biden’s domestic counterterrorism strategy aimed at rooting out white supremacy harms minority communities and those expressing political dissent.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation’s largest civil rights organization, is calling on the White House to scale back its first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. They say it has resulted in an overly broad definition of “terrorism” and provides federal authorities too much investigative leeway.
“This discretion, and an expansive view of what counts as ‘terrorism,’ has resulted in the targeting of communities of color and political dissent,” the group said in their recent report on confronting white supremacist violence.