I know that some of the most serious terrorist attacks on American soil were perpetrated by white supremacists/hate groups...until 9/11, I met regularly with an anti-terror law enforcement group that included members of the FBI, DOJ, OC Sheriff, OC DA, local PD's, CHP, CDC, campus law enforcement...this law enforcement commission sought to meet regularly to share info about hate crimes and terrorism in our jusidictions...the most high profile and destructive segment of domestic terror groups then were white supremacists...think Timothy McVeigh, Ruby Ridge...
state prison authorities said they were among the most dangerous inmates and had to be isolated from other groups...they were identified by their embrace of symbols, including tattoos, hand signs, style of dress to show their allegiances...methods used by LE to identify hate groups/white supremacists were successfully used to identify street gang members...
after 9/11 our focus shifted to radical Islamic terrorist groups and individuals...
in the past 3-4 years, after I retired, I've noticed that hate incidents perpetrated by white supremacists have shown a sharp increase...
https://www.csis.org/analysis/rise-far-right-extremism-united-states
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