To the latter point, there is a glaring omission: no mention of Islamic terrorism. Instead, the report singles out as terror threats “anti-government militia groups and white supremacy extremists, along with ‘sovereign citizen’ nationalists, and anarchists…violent animal rights and environmentalist extremists, black separatists, anti- and pro-abortion activists, and Puerto Rican nationalists.”

The Washington Free Beacon obtained a copy of the 2013 FBI National Threat Assessment for Domestic Extremism. The 60-page report is interesting for what it says. And for what it doesn’t say.

It’s amazing (and not in a good way) that the report lists all these different groups yet manages to avoid singling out the greatest threat to our national security: Islamic terror.

We are living in some crazy times, people.

We are allowing increasing numbers of Muslims into this country. We are allowing imams to preach hate in mosques in cities and towns across America. We are allowing Americans who fight for ISIS to return to the United States with no consequence. We are behaving like dhimmis on multiple fronts, from being apologists for Islam to elected officials who embrace sharia law to Muslim abuse of the justice system (lawfare) and on and on.

Dhimmitude, Exhibit A, is this FBI document. While it avoids any mention of Islam or Muslims, it does single out black separatist groups, as the Washington Free Beacon continues:

On black separatists, the report warned that “high-profile racially charged crimes or events” could lead to an expansion of black separatist groups. The report identified three such groups as the New Black Panther Party, the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, and the Black Hebrew Israelite group as extremists under FBI scrutiny. …the report warned that radical black activists could “reinitiate violence at the historically high levels seen for the movement during the 1970s, when bombings, assassinations, hijackings, and hostage-takings occurred.” “Such a scenario could occur as an extreme response to perceptions of devolving racial equality or perceptions of racially-motivated police brutality, or racially-biased injustice, oppression, or judicial rulings…Indicators include increased weapons procurement, reports of sophisticated plots, and development of an explosives capability.” Black extremist groups may also seek “stronger ties to foreign governments in exchange for financial resources,” the report said. The report was written before the racial unrest in Ferguson, Mo. However, it mentions that black separatist extremists stepped up threats against law enforcement officers, the U.S. government, and non-blacks following the Trayvon Martin shooting in 2012. “FBI investigations reveal black separatist extremists engaged in financial crimes, and drug and weapons trafficking, possibly to finance activities and maintain access to weapons.”….

This attention to radical black groups is interesting. I certainly don’t think such groups come near the threat of Islamic terror, but taken as a whole there are areas of overlap including institutionalized hate, notions of supremacy, violence, and rampant anti-Semitism.

The Washington Free Beacon continues:

FBI intelligence sources reported that “Of a sample of 50 credible violent threat intelligence reports analyzed for this assessment, nearly 60 percent expressed lethal violence as an ultimate goal”…. (snip) The Bureau anticipates an increase in activity by animal rights and environmental extremists…Additionally, a similar level of activity is expected this year for anarchist, anti-government militias, white supremacy, and sovereign citizen extremists. For abortion extremism, the report says violence prone groups fall into two categories, “anti-abortion” and “pro-choice,” but notes the primary threat of abortion extremism comes from lone individuals, not groups. Puerto Rican nationalist extremists were described as “followers of Marxist-Leninist ideology,” have targeted the U.S. government for destabilization, and are seeking to create an independent island nation. The FBI estimates domestic extremists caused more than $15 million in financial loses in 2012 and 2013, mainly through animal rights and environmental activities that targeted U.S. agriculture.

OK. Let’s pause a moment and review: The FBI has identified animal rights activists and Puerto Rican nationalists among those that pose a serious threat to America. Say what? While I find animal rights activists to be pretty obnoxious, it’s news to me that they should be high on our radar as a terror threat.

Meanwhile, I found references to black separatist groups ironic since we have a Justice Department turning a blind eye to threats made by the Black Panthers as recently as last month when they lead a chant calling for the death of Officer Wilson in addition to other relatively recent threats where there were no consequences when they were physically intimidating, publically threatening to commit murder, and inciting others to violence. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

The Washington Free Beacon continues (bolding is mine):

The FBI’s most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting—both carried out by radical Muslim Americans. Instead, the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to U.S. internal security from extremists is limited to attacks and activities by eight types of domestic extremist movements—none motivated by radical Islam. (snip) “The FBI categorizes Islamic extremists and individuals inspired by Islamic extremist groups as International Terrorism,” he said. “Even though Ft. Hood and Boston were domestic incidents, the ideology and motivation of those behind them had international elements.” (snip) The Obama administration in 2009 adopted a new policy that substituted the vague term “violent extremism” as a replacement for terrorism. (snip) The report left out all references to the April 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and injured some 264 others….(snip) The FBI report also made no direct reference to the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, by radicalized Army Maj. Nidal Hasan. The mass shooting left 13 dead and more than 30 injured. Former FBI Agent John Guandolo said…“It should not surprise anyone who follows the jihadi threats in the United States that the FBI would not even include ‘Islamic terrorism’ in its assessment of serious threats to the republic in an official report,” Guandolo said. “Since 9/11, FBI leadership—as well as leaders from Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, CIA, Pentagon, and the National Security Council—relies on easily identifiable jihadis from the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas, al Qaeda and elsewhere to advise it on how to deal with ‘domestic extremism.’” Patrick Poole, a domestic terrorism expert, also was critical of the report’s omission of U.S. Islamist extremism, blaming “politically correct” policies at the FBI for the problem. (snip) “These politically correct policies have already allowed Americans to be killed at Fort Hood and in Boston,” he added Guandolo said the failure to recognize the domestic Islamist threat had allowed domestic jihadist groups and their sympathizers to shape U.S. government create policies that do not acknowledge jihad as the root cause for the current global chaos. An example, he said, is that the FBI has appointed a domestic Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas support organization leader to an FBI advisory council at the Washington headquarters. Additionally, the FBI is failing to train agents and analysts on the Muslim Brotherhood network in the United States, Guandolo said. “The FBI, no matter how diligent its agents are in their pursuit of ‘terrorists’, will never defeat this threat because its leaders refuse to address or even identify it,” he said. “This level of negligence on the part of the FBI leaders and their failure to understand the jihadi threat 13 years after 9/11 is appalling.” Poole said the failure of the FBI to understand the domestic Islamist threat led to the U.S. government categorizing the 2009 Fort Hood shooting Army Maj. Nidal Hasan as “workplace violence.” “In the case of Fort Hood, the FBI was monitoring Maj. Hasan’s email communication with al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki but the FBI headquarters dismissed it because they were talking about ‘religious’ subjects,” Poole said. “In the Boston bombing case the FBI cleared Tamerlan Tsarnayev with nothing more than a house visit after receiving a tip from Russian intelligence, and never making the connection that he was attending a mosque founded by an imprisoned al Qaeda financier and previously attended by two convicted terrorists,” Poole added. As a result “we have more than a dozen dead Americans killed here at home because of these politically correct FBI policies, and with threats emerging from all corners this doubling-down on political correctness when it comes to Islam is undoubtedly going to get more Americans killed,” he added. The domestic threat assessment is the latest example indicating the FBI has been forced by Obama administration policies from focusing on the domestic terror threat posed by radical Islamists. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R., Texas) said in a 2012 House floor speech that the FBI was ordered to purge references to Islam, jihad, and Muslims in its counterterrorism “lexicon” guidelines for its reports. As a result, the FBI is hamstrung from understanding the threat of terrorism from groups like al Qaeda that have declared jihad, or holy war, on the Untied States, Gomert said. …the vast majority of U.S. Islamic organizations were identified in recent U.S. terrorism trials as part of the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent group for the Palestinian terror group Hamas. Thus, these groups are aligned with the same objectives as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al Qaeda, and others…. “Our FBI is not teaching their agents and analysts this information; they are not sharing it with local and state law enforcement officials; and they are not investigating and pursuing the very individuals and organizations which are supporting and training jihadis in America,” Guandolo said. Guandolo said former FBI director Robert Mueller testified to Congress that he was unaware that the Islamic Society of Boston was the organization behind the radicalization of the Tsarnaev brothers. “That tells you all we need to know about the FBI’s leadership about the threat here in America from the Islamic Movement—they are clueless,”….

This is what gets innocent people killed.

To read more about this report, Robert Spencer has an excellent piece, here.