The FBI is using a score based on “Indicators of Mobilization to Violence” in counterterrorism investigations, despite evidence that radicalization is a highly individual process.
There are striking parallels between Bannon's worldview and the perspective of terrorist groups like the Islamic State, which see the world divided in similarly binary terms.
Counterterrorism experts say the Trump administration will likely destroy existing community partnerships while generating fresh opposition to new programs.
The contradictory directives came as government agencies struggled to interpret and implement the Trump administration’s travel ban.
“All agency personnel must preserve any document that contains information that is potentially relevant to OIG’s investigation."
Foreign students studying in the U.S. have been thrown into crisis by Trump’s executive order, and the consequences for American schools could be huge.
Both the White House and Fox News helped to spread these false claims, and still have not retracted them.
Iranians in the United States, due to their precarious political situation and large diaspora, are among the groups most affected by Trump's Muslim ban.
“We had less than a day to review vague details,” said a State Department official about Trump’s Muslim ban. “This normally takes weeks of conversation.”
President Trump's executive order banning refugees and immigrants from some Muslim-majority countries is a radical departure from past U.S. policy.
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