Charles Spencer, a 21-year FBI veteran who most recently served as special agent in charge of the Jacksonville Field Office in Florida, has been named as the new assistant director of the bureau’s International Operations Division.
Many of the attacks involve racially motivated and anti-government extremism, as well as attacks on abortion clinics.
The Transportation Security Administration, which protects America’s airports by screening passengers, could lose substantial funding to finance President Trump’s crackdown at the southern border.
Of those cases, about 40% are racially motivated, often involving white supremacists.
Federal authorities became worried in 2014 that black activists who were calling for an end to the police killings of black people would join international terrorist groups such as ISIS.
The government shutdown is hindering the FBI’s investigations of terrorism, child trafficking and violent crime, according to a report issued Tuesday by a group representing the bureau’s 13,000 special agents.
Secret Service agents foiled an ISIS plot by ISIS to assassinate President Trump while he was in the Philippines last year.
The FBI is investigating thousands of terrorism cases and arrested hundreds of terrorism suspects in the past year, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee on Wednesday.
