内容摘要：The four-page letter, addressed to Bhattacharya, also was sent to

The four-page letter, addressed to Bhattacharya, also was sent to

The FBI says its domestic terrorism investigations continue uninterrupted, though Patel at times has discussed the threat in different terms than Wray, who led the bureau as it investigated the Capitol riot and who cited it as evidence of the dangers of homegrown extremists. At hearings last month, Patel pointed to aat Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism acts that commanded the FBI’s resources and attention.

As it reconfigures its resources, the FBI has moved to reassign some agents focused on domestic terrorism to a new task force set up to investigate the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and its aftermath, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel moves.One national security concern Patel has preached continuity on in public is the threat from China, which he said in a recent Fox News interview keeps him up at night. Wray often called China the gravest long-term threat to national security, and when he stepped aside in January the FBI was contending with an espionage operation that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.There are signs of a broader national security realignment.

A task force tracking foreign influence, like Russia’s attempts to interfere in American democracy, was disbanded and the Justice Department has scaled back criminal enforcement of aon behalf of foreign entities.

All of that concerns retired FBI supervisor Frank Montoya, a longtime counterintelligence official who says fentanyl and drug cartels are not “existential” threats in the same way Russia and China are. When it comes to complicated, interagency espionage work, the FBI, he said, has always “been the glue that made it all work.”

Patel makes no apologies for priorities he says come from the White House.Nearby, at least four self-driving Waymo cars were set on fire, sending large plumes of black smoke into the sky and exploding intermittently as the electric vehicles burned. By evening, police had issued an unlawful assembly order shutting down several blocks of downtown Los Angeles.

Flash bangs echoed out every few seconds into the evening.Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom requested Trump remove the guard members in a

Sunday afternoon, calling their deployment a “serious breach of state sovereignty.” He was in Los Angeles meeting with local law enforcement and officials.The deployment appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have sought to hinder the