[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 22, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E677-E678]
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 INTRODUCING BILL TO COMBAT TRANSNATIONAL WHITE SUPREMACIST EXTREMISTS 
    AND STRENGTHEN INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS ON TRANSNATIONAL WHITE 
                          SUPREMACIST THREATS

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                           HON. ANDRE CARSON

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 22, 2021

  Mr. CARSON. Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce a bill that will 
address intelligence gaps and sharpen our focus on transnational white 
supremacist extremist threats. Specifically, this bill will improve our 
federal intelligence agencies and prioritize the white supremacist 
extremist threat, including its ties to international groups. This bill 
builds on previous work done by a number of congressional committees, 
including the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's 
Intelligence Authorizations (IAA) over the past few years.
  As the Chairman of the Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and 
Counterproliferation (C3) Subcommittee on the House Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence, I am proud to strengthen our earlier 
provisions in the IAA and introduce this new bill. I am also extremely 
grateful for the collaborative efforts and support of Chairman Adam 
Schiff--who joins me as an original cosponsor of this bill, and whose 
work was invaluable in developing this legislation for introduction 
today.
  This bill mandates that the National Counterterrorism Center--
alongside the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of 
Homeland Security--explore and analyze more completely the ideology and 
objectives driving white supremacist groups with transnational 
connections, including their leadership and operational structure. 
Currently, the United States government too often and too heavily 
relies on outside research organizations for detailed analysis of white 
supremacist extremists. It is imperative that United States 
government's intelligence agencies and subordinate organizations 
perform the high-level analysis needed to best utilize existing data, 
add additional data that may be missing, and ensure this is done on a 
national level. The new assessments required by this bill will allow 
lawmakers and the public to more completely understand the full scope 
of the transnational threat and will help foster a sustained 
examination of its international impact well into the future.
  As a former law enforcement professional, I have warned my colleagues 
for a number of years that the threat of white supremacist extremist 
organizations has been growing worse. Today, this problem is the top 
terror threat to American lives, and the United States Government needs 
to take actions that reflect this heightened priority, especially since 
the January 6th insurrection and home-grown attack on the U.S. Capitol. 
While there has been improvement under the Biden Administration, plus 
increased Congressional efforts, the Intelligence Community continues 
to place a priority on the international terror groups and their 
offenses, while ignoring the domestic terror threats. While some were 
taken by surprise by domestic terrorists that blew up the federal 
building in Oklahoma City in 1995, we should never again be caught by 
surprise--especially when we have the ability and the duty

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to prevent future attacks with stronger intelligence assessments.
  I strongly believe this bill will complement and enhance the recently 
announced Department of Justice strategy to combat the domestic terror 
and domestic violent extremism threats, so I urge all my colleagues to 
join me in cosponsoring this bill.

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