The Pentagon Can't Counter White Supremacy: Government programs threaten Black and Muslim communities in the name of countering extremism.

• Date: 01 October 2022
• Author: Taylor, Vanessa
• Published date: 01 October 2022
• Author: Taylor, Vanessa

After the January 6 insurrection, a CBS News analysis found that at least eighty-one of the more than 700 people charged in relation to the attack were current or former armed service members. In response, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin committed to addressing extremism within military ranks. But the Biden Administrations approach, which draws on a long and fraught history in the United States of targeted surveillance in the name of protecting national security, only risks traumatizing the same communities it claims to keep safe.

Upon taking office, President Joe Biden backtracked on campaign promises to end the Trump Administrations Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Program. Instead, the program became the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), part of federal efforts to "comprehensively combat domestic violent extremism, including violent white supremacy."

Civil rights advocates were...