Garland returns to Oklahoma City to warn that domestic terrorism is ‘still with us’
Attorney General Merrick Garland returned Monday to Oklahoma City — the site of the nation’s most deadly act of domestic terrorism and of his formative experiences as a young prosecutor — to deliver a warning that the threat of domestic extremism is again on the rise.
Delivering his first major speech as attorney general, Garland told a memorial service that the nation must remain vigilant against such dangers.
“Although many years have passed, the terror perpetrated by people like Timothy McVeigh is still with us. Just last month, the FBI warned of the ongoing and heightened threat posed by domestic violent extremists,” Garland said. “Those of us who were in Oklahoma City in April 1995 do not need any warning.”
Garland has only been on the job a little more than a month, but he has vowed to crackdown on a resurgence of violence linked to white supremacist and right-wing militia groups.
“The Department of Justice is pouring its resources into stopping domestic violent extremists before they can attack, prosecuting those who do and battling the spread of the kind of hate that leads to tragedies like the one we mark here today,” the attorney general said. [Continue reading…]