WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations, in a shift that could undermine law enforcement’s ability to counter white supremacists and anti-government extremists, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The moves, sources said, are an indication that domestic terrorism investigations, which in recent years have largely involved violence fueled by right-wing ideologies, may be less of a priority under FBI Director Kash Patel, a prominent critic of the effort.

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    So… vandalizing Tesla’s is considered domestic terrorism, but the FBI doesn’t have the staff or tooling to investigate domestic terrorism?

    Neat.

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      But that affects the president(s pocket) directly so that is the ONLY thing that will be investigated now probably.

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    If this were a Democrat administration fox news would be screaming “See! Democrats love terrorists! They want HAMAS here to thrive! They want another 9/11!”

    But since it’s the orange fuckwit and president muskrat they’ll just say “this is good for Bitcoin.”