I will post the three three drafts I gave to @woodruffbets momentarily on this thread. https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1302002837837283329
Each is more than 30 pages. The language on white supremacy changes subtly but importantly, as I told @woodruffbets, across the drafts. I will highlight those changes as well.
I will also publish a more extensive analysis of the documents on @lawfareblog over the weekend.
A few prefatory notes while the documents are uploading.
First, the later draft is not inconsistent with the earlier drafts. All three identify white supremacist violence as the principal terror threat facing the United States today.
Second, they do so in slightly different fashions from one another. The earlier draft does so directly. The most recent draft creates a new analytical category of domestic violent extremism, which it designates and the major terror threat.
It then names white supremacist violence as the most significant component of that threat--which presumably also includes threats of violence that are less politically challenging to the administration.
So while the documents use the same data and make broadly the same argument, they have migrated over time toward a less challenging posture for a political echelon that refuses to acknowledge white supremacy as a serious problem.
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