Law enforcement

FBI: Terror probes nearly equally split between domestic, jihadi

The FBI's number of terrorism investigations is almost equally split between domestic cases and those involving jihadi operatives, the agency's new director told a Senate panel Wednesday.

But some Democrats have been pushing the Trump administration to shift the nation’s security focus away from radical Islam and toward combating domestic white supremacists, the Washington Times reported.

When it comes to homeland security, the FBI is currently looking into roughly 1,000 domestic terrorism cases, which is almost on par with the number of jihadi terrorist threats, said Christopher Wray, who took over as FBI director in August.

During Wednesday's hearing, hosted by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, several Senate Democrats argued that white supremacist and domestic extremist threat may require more resources, using last month's violence in Charlottesville, Va., as an example, the Times reported.