User talk:Veritas Aeterna/Draft January 6th and Domestic Terrorism Sections
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[edit]Changes for: January 6 United States Capitol attack#Analysis and terminology
We know much more now than we did in the period immediately after the attack.
I am correcting the description of how the Encyclopedia Britannica describes the events to accord with their current text. The previous text in Wikipedia read, "According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 'the attack was widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup d'état.'" The Wikipedia text did not address that the events were also considered domestic terrorism by the FBI and other intelligence agencies. The current Encyclopædia Britannica article on the United States Capitol attack of 2021, opens with this text:
United States Capitol attack of 2021, storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, by a mob of supporters of Republican Pres. Donald J. Trump. The attack disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election of 2020, which Trump had lost to his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden. Because its object was to prevent a legitimate president-elect from assuming office, the attack was widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup d’état. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law-enforcement agencies also considered it an act of domestic terrorism.
I also noted that the encyclopedia also classifies the attack under its domestic terrorism topic. Finally, I added Christopher Wray's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.