domestic terrorism
“If they had carried out this plot, which every indication is that they were going to, people would have died,” the Greece, New York, police chief said.
The president is pandering to GOP voters instead of comforting a nation gripped by homegrown terrorists.
The CNN anchor stood by his earlier comments amid harsh criticism from conservatives.
Many conservatives were not happy with the CNN anchor's comments.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Paul Rosenfeld intended the blast on Washington's National Mall to draw attention to "sortition," an ancient political ideology, authorities said.
The lack of a federal criminal statute outlawing domestic terrorism "causes confusion and frustration," according to an FBI special agent.
Three Kansas men on trial in a domestic terrorism case are trying out arguments that wouldn't fly in other terrorism cases.
Patrick Stein, a Kansas militiaman whom the feds say planned to slaughter Somali refugees, opened up to a man he thought was an arms dealer.
The distinction comes a week after the attacker was identified as 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt.
But the government contends the Crusaders militiamen were hatching an actual plan to kill Muslim refugees.