On September 20, Acting
Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan announced the new DHS
Strategic Framework for Combating Terrorism and Targeted Violence at the
Brookings Institution, during an event cohosted by the Heritage Foundation.
“Today, the United
States faces an evolving threat environment, and a threat of terrorism and
targeted violence within our borders that is more diverse than at any time
since the 9/11 attacks,” said Acting Secretary McAleenan. “While the threat
posed by foreign terrorist organizations like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda
persists, we are acutely aware of the growing threat from enemies, both foreign
and domestic, who seek to incite violence in our Nation’s youth,
disenfranchised, and disaffected, in order to attack their fellow citizens and
fray at the seams of our diverse social fabric. This awareness, coupled with
the history of recent tragedies, has galvanized the Department of Homeland
Security to expand its counterterrorism mission focus beyond terrorists operating
abroad, to include those radicalized to violence within our borders by violent
extremists of any ideology.”
The Acting Secretary
explained that the new strategic framework will make it clear that the
Department is committed to addressing the threat posed by terrorism and
targeted violence at home, just as it is committed to continuing to
aggressively pursue the foreign terrorist organizations it has denied entry to
the United States for nearly seventeen years.
The strategic framework offers a vision to expands DHS’s
counterterrorism mission to face modern threats by implementing proven,
whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches. It is designed to support
the White House’s 2017 National Security Strategy and execute
upon the DHS responsibilities enumerated in the Administration’s2018 National
Strategy for Counterterrorism.
The Strategic
Framework outlines the Department’s vision around the following goals:
- Understand the evolving terrorism and targeted violence threat
environment, and support partners in the homeland security enterprise through
this specialized knowledge.
- Prevent terrorists and other hostile actors from entering the United
States, and deny them the opportunity to exploit the Nation’s trade, immigration,
and domestic and international travel systems.
- Prevent terrorism and targeted violence.
- Enhance U.S. infrastructure protections and community preparedness.
Read the DHS Strategic Framework for Combating Terrorism and Targeted Violence.
Source: DHS
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