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U.S. government organization responsible for national and international counterterrorism efforts
The U.S. government uses a mix of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and interagency processes to label individuals or organizations as terrorists, centering on whether they have committed or p...
The Obama administration massively expanded U.S. strike-by-drone operations compared with its predecessor and formalized a centralized legal and interagency approval process — while also taking increm...
The available reporting presents that Charlie Kirk’s security team was involved in his murder; reporting instead highlights questions about the security detail’s actions on the scene and notes procedu...
Federal public documents from DHS and the FBI since 2016 do not present a long roster of contemporary, named “left‑wing” organizations the way they do for some far‑right groups; instead, the agencies ...
Reporting shows a dispute inside the U.S. intelligence community over whether the National Counterterrorism Center’s review of FBI materials in the Charlie Kirk murder probe was shut down or constrain...
The available materials show there is in federal law; recent executive guidance (NSPM-7) and declassified strategy documents focus on *investigation, disruption, intelligence integration,* and prosecu...
The investigation into Charlie Kirk’s death is being led by federal agents from the FBI with substantial involvement from Utah state and local law enforcement and prosecutors. Reporting shows the FBI’...
The materials assert three core claims: the FBI’s domestic-extremism work sits inside a broader interagency counterterrorism architecture, recent policy moves have altered the FBI’s external partnersh...
calls its refugee policy both secure and streamlined because it pairs legally codified, centralized processing systems and interagency with a coordinated designed to move vetted people from referral t...
Yes — federal domestic terrorism data can be and has been disaggregated by region and state in government reporting, but publicly available FBI statistics are uneven, produced through joint FBI–DHS me...
The official investigations into the assassination of Charlie Kirk remain ongoing and have produced no single, definitive public finding tying the accused to a broader movement or foreign actor; autho...
The available, recent reporting does not establish credible evidence that Erika Kirk was involved in her husband’s killing; instead the dominant narratives are , questions about Turning Point USA’s su...
Commission cast the that preceded the attacks as systemic—rooted in failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management—and concluded that pieces of critical information existed but were not...
The 9/11 Commission concluded that failures of information sharing—between the CIA, the FBI, and other agencies—were central to the missed warning signs before September 11, 2001, and it made concrete...
No U.S. political party has been officially designated as a terrorist organization under U.S. law; federal statutory and executive designation regimes apply to foreign organizations or to legal author...
Congress’ NDAA directive (Section 5602) forced the FBI, DHS, and ODNI to create uniform terminology and a recurring, unclassified strategic report on domestic terrorism; the agencies complied by publi...
Federal and local counterterrorism tools range from intelligence fusion and law enforcement disruption to financial controls and community-based prevention; key agencies include the National Counterte...
Law enforcement and civil‑rights groups interact through information‑sharing, joint task forces, and public guidance: agencies like the FBI run Joint Terrorism Task Forces and the Nationwide Suspiciou...
Convictions and prison sentences for bombing attacks are decided through criminal trials or military/peace deals; historically, individuals convicted in major bombings have been imprisoned (for exampl...
Public reporting does not identify any public, credible accusation that a specific named official or agency carried out a deliberate “coverup” of Charlie Kirk’s assassination; instead, reporting docum...