House GOP Push FBI For Answers on Potential Eco-Terror Threats

Published on April 15, 2024

House Oversight Committee Republicans are opening a new probe into the potential for eco-terrorist attacks within the United States, including attacks on energy infrastructure throughout the country. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) raised the specter of a rising eco-terrorism threat and called for an FBI briefing on the matter. The Republican lawmakers tied their concerns about eco-terrorism—terrorist activity carried out in support of environmentalist causes—to an April 2023 article by Rolling Stone magazine, which alleges the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate was one of several law enforcement agencies to raise concern about the release of the film “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” depicting a fictional eco-terrorist plot targeting an oil pipeline in west Texas....

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