Senior defense official on call with reporters today: "We clearly recognize the threat from domestic extremists, particularly those who espouse white supremacist or white nationalist ideologies."
"...Private studies express between 2001 and today right-wing extremists are responsible for more deaths in this country than any other extremist group," senior DoD official says.
Some groups are actively trying to recruit DoD personnel to their cause or encouraging their members to join the military and DoD, senior DoD official says.
As they have been so far, DoD officials are referring any and all questions about military involvement in the assault on the Capitol last week to DoJ.
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