NYT’s Michael Schmidt Says the Biden DoJ Views the January 6th Riot as the Greatest National Security Crisis Today

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SCHMIDT: “January 6th seems like a pivot point, a potential pivot point for the Justice Department, maybe probably not on the scale of 9/11, but maybe similarly. In that respect, what I mean is that it looks like the Justice Department will refocus itself on a new larger target. That doesn’t mean that they’re still not going to look at international terrorism, but I think that they’re going to throw their time and attention behind the problems of domestic terrorism in ways that we have not seen before. Certainly in the statements and the rhetoric coming out of the Biden administration, in the statements from their Justice Department officials that went before Congress in the lead-up to their confirmations coming in here, they have said that this is obviously a huge issue. These people expect to spend an enormous amount of time getting their hands around the issue. It is tricky. It comes with civil liberties issues that, in terms of free speech, that all this will run up against. But in many ways it feels like a potential pivot point, a real change at the Justice Department.”