FBI director says Capitol riot was 'domestic terrorism'

Christopher Wray.
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In his first public testimony about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the attack was "criminal behavior, plain and simple ... that we, the FBI, view as domestic terrorism."

Wray continued by saying the siege "was not an isolated event." Rather, he said, "the problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now, and it's not going away anytime soon."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.