Civil rights groups question Biden’s counterterrorism strategy

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Critics said the administration has failed to rein in faulty 9/11-era methods of surveillance that they said disproportionately harmed minority communities

. But they reiterated concerns that the administration is too readily importing strategies from two decades of trying to combat foreign-based terrorism that, they said, have disproportionately targeted minority communities.“One of things we’re trying to highlight, without necessarily saying it, is that we do not need a new war on terror,” said Nadia Aziz, the senior director of the Leadership Conference’s Fighting Hate & Bias initiative.

The Biden White House unveiled the 32-page strategy in June 2021, months after the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and amid warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies that a resurgence in far-right extremism was a top threat to national security. The strategy aimed to coordinate efforts across the government in law enforcement and prevention, some of which were already underway. It called for new spending at the Justice Department and FBI to hire analysts, investigators and prosecutors; greater information-sharing between the federal government and state and local partners as well as with tech companies; and addressing the factors contributing to the problem, such as systemic racism.

— is a more comprehensive attempt at highlighting concerns and recommending changes nearly two years into Biden’s presidency, according to the authors.The report faults the federal government as relying on threat-assessment strategies that, the authors said, granted law enforcement agencies “immense discretion regarding whom or what to look into” and “enabled law enforcement to baselessly tar entire communities with suspicion.”, including U.S.

Efforts to track extremist networks through online social media accounts “raise serious concerns because they can blur the line between scrutiny of constitutionally protected or simply innocuous activity and genuine threats of violence,” the report states. “The administration should stop conducting broadscale social media surveillance,” the authors write.In January, Assistant Attorney General Matthew G.

 

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