“The Biden administration is well-positioned to take concrete steps” toward fulfilling Barack Obama’s pledge to close the Guantanamo prison, which holds 40 alleged terrorists at a cost of $13 million per detainee, argues a former lawyer with the U.S. Department of Defense. But whether it’s politically expedient to do so is another question.
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FBI agents arrested Justen Watkins, 25, the self-proclaimed leader of the Base, and Alfred Gorman, 35, during a pair of raids.
A friend of a shooter in the 2015 San Bernardino, Ca., attack that killed 14 people was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for providing weapons and “for conspiring to commit terrorist attacks.”
Brian Higgins participated “in a plan of domestic terrorism that included storming the Michigan Capitol building and harming government officials,” said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
The men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor also discussed abducting Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, an FBI agent testified.
“States haven’t been doing nearly enough and have not been taking advantage of the tools that they have” to fight extremists, says one expert.
“This was a sophisticated terrorist plot … This wasn’t a hoax,” says a former Trump administration counterterrorism official.
Some law enforcers have expressed concerns that private militias like those accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor will turn up at Election Day polling sites.
Federal and state authorities charged 13 people of planning and training to attack law enforcement officers and the Michigan State Capitol with the aim of igniting a civil war.
The Justice Department charged two British nationals suspected of being part of a notorious Islamic State cell accused of torturing and beheading Western hostages.