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News comes just over three weeks after Tarrio was arrested in Washington prior to the insurrection for burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a historically Black church in Washington, D.C. during a December protest.

The Insider Threat Program is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of “insider threat” give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range conduct