Frontpage Mag Last year, on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, FBI director Christopher Wray testified that “preventing terrorist attacks remains our top priority,” and that “the greatest terrorist threat we face here in the U.S. is from what are, in effect, lone actors,” and “lone domestic violent extremists.” And according to Wray, “we remain focused on our ultimate mission: protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.”
Americans might wonder how the FBI protected the American people against lone actor Ted Kaczynski, the so-called “Unabomber,” now 80. Last year Kaczynski was moved to a federal prison medical facility in North Carolina. Back in the 1970s, during the Carter Era, the Harvard grad and math professor launched a new career as a domestic terrorist.
“Theodore Kaczynski came to our attention in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb at a Chicago university,” explains the FBI, then led by William Webster, a federal judge who never served as an FBI agent. On May 25, 1978, a package intended for Northwestern University professor Buckley Crist, exploded and injured a security officer…
