--- description: FBI chief says 1000 active investigations includes people linked to white nationalism, extremist white supremacy and environmental movements title: Christopher Wray: 1,000 FBI Probes Into Domestic Terrorists image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ec2dba363c1c1f7/6988dfbdfb4eac3e61893e97/christopherwray.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [politics](/tag/politics/) ## politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # FBI Chief: Agency Has 1,000 Open Domestic Terrorism Investigations ## Video: President Trump: The Fight Against Terrorism Is a 'Battle Between Good and Evil' [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump: The Fight Against Terrorism Is a 'Battle Between Good and Evil'](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/z3apzNXu.m3u8) (2:02)  _Published 2017-05-21. President Donald Trump called on Middle Eastern leaders to combat a "crisis of Islamic extremism" emanating from the region, casting the fight against terrorism as a "battle between good and evil," not a clash between the West and Islam._ by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 28, 2017 12:40 PM CUT  Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray listens testifies during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing concerning threats to the homeland, September 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray listens testifies during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing concerning threats to the homeland, September 27, 2017 in Washington, DC.Drew Angerer—Getty Images by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 28, 2017 12:40 PM CUT [The FBI ](http://time.com/4810490/donald-trump-fbi-loyalty-pledge/ "undefined")has about 1,000 active investigations into potential [domestic terrorists](http://time.com/4715307/terrorists-get-out-of-prison/ "undefined"), which includes people linked to white nationalism, extremist white supremacy and environmental movements, the agency’s Director [Christopher Wray ](http://time.com/4851428/christopher-wray-fbi-director-senate-testimony/ "undefined")told Congress during his first testimony as the agency’s chief. Speaking to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, Wray said domestic terrorism is a “very serious” issue that the agency spends “a lot of our time focused on,” [ABC reports](http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-1000-open-investigations-violent-white-supremacy-domestic/story?id=50127366 "undefined"). “We have about 1,000 open domestic-terrorism investigations as we speak,” he said, a figure that is in addition to about the same number of probes into “homegrown violent extremists,” like those inspired by ISIS. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill said attacks by white supremacists and anti-government are “almost triple” those carried out by people inspired or tied to international terrorist organizations. “\[Americans\] would assume that the threat from ISIS influence is much greater, and the reality and the facts don’t support that,” she said, ABC reports. There are a large “number of agents who are working very, very hard” against the threat of domestic terrorism, Wray said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4960709/christopher-wray-fbi-chief-domestic-terrorism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4960709/christopher-wray-fbi-chief-domestic-terrorism/"},"headline":"FBI Chief: Agency Has 1,000 Open Domestic Terrorism Investigations","datePublished":"2017-09-28T12:40:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:38:22.763Z","description":"FBI chief says 1000 active investigations includes people linked to white nationalism, extremist white supremacy and environmental movements","url":"https://time.com/4960709/christopher-wray-fbi-chief-domestic-terrorism/","keywords":["politics","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ec2dba363c1c1f7/6988dfbdfb4eac3e61893e97/christopherwray.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ec2dba363c1c1f7/6988dfbdfb4eac3e61893e97/christopherwray.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke And FBI Director Christopher Wray Testify To Senate Homeland Security Committee","caption":"Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke And FBI Director Christopher Wray Testify To Senate Homeland Security Committee","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/politics/","name":"politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4960709/christopher-wray-fbi-chief-domestic-terrorism/","name":"FBI Chief: Agency Has 1,000 Open Domestic Terrorism Investigations"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump: The Fight Against Terrorism Is a 'Battle Between Good and Evil'","description":"President Donald Trump called on Middle Eastern leaders to combat a \"crisis of Islamic extremism\" emanating from the region, casting the fight against terrorism as a \"battle between good and evil,\" not a clash between the West and Islam.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/z3apzNXu/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-05-21T16:41:10.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/z3apzNXu.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4960709/christopher-wray-fbi-chief-domestic-terrorism/","duration":"PT2M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4960709/christopher-wray-fbi-chief-domestic-terrorism/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```