(WASHINGTON, D.C.)—Today, Rep. Ted Deutch, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, and Rep. Max Rose, Chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism, and Reps. Stephen F. Lynch and Jamie Raskin, Chairmen of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittees on National Security and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following statement on this week’s hearings on the transnational terrorist threat of white nationalist terrorism:
“It’s abundantly clear that violent right-wing extremism is a transnational terrorist threat to U.S. national security. Our subcommittees have already heard from key intelligence officials and subject matter experts who have warned about the risks of not treating this with equal seriousness as we treat other forms of terrorism. This week, our subcommittees will examine the transnational threat of white nationalist terrorism and consider solutions for how the United States and our international partners should combat it, while preserving the civil rights and liberties of all Americans.”
Joint Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security Subcommittee Hearing
TITLE: Meeting the Challenge of White Nationalist Terrorism at Home and Abroad
WHERE: 310 Cannon House Office Building
WHEN: Wednesday, September 18, 2019
TIME: 2:00 PM
WITNESSES: Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Ph.D.
Director, International Training and Education Program, School of Education, American University
Mr. Christian Picciolini
Founder, Free Radicals Project
Author, Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Sharon Nazarian, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of International Affairs
Anti-Defamation League
TITLE: Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part III): The Transnational Terrorist Threat
WHERE: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building
WHEN: Friday, September 20, 2019
TIME: 9:00 AM
WITNESSES: TBC
###