{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://turner.house.gov/2021/4/rep-mike-turner-oh-10-presses-fbi-director-for-answers-on-antifa-calls", "Rep. Mike Turner (OH-10) Presses FBI Director for Answers on Antifa; Calls on FBI to Further Investigate", "2021-04-16", "2021", "2021-04", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Michael R. Turner", "T000463", "turner.house.gov", "turner", "https://turner.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014 In today\u2019s House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing on World Wide Threats, Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray on Antifa's organizational structure and resourcing, including sources of funding, training and logistics support. Recent reports indicate that members of Antifa traveled to Minnesota to participate in ongoing protests that have resulted in property damage to businesses and multiple injuries.\n\nIn the hearing today, Rep. Turner pressed Director Wray on his characterization of Antifa, after Wray\u2019s previous comments characterized Antifa as not an organization, but rather as self-radicalized, \u201clone actors.\u201d\n\n\u201cDirector Wray, you have previously testified, have you not, that Antifa is not a group or organization, is that your testimony today?\u201d\n\nWray responded, \u201cWe consider Antifa to be more of a movement,\u201d and claimed most activity is conducted through. \"local and regional nodes,\" rather than by one organization. He also could not confirm orchestrated financial backing that would support training and deployment of Antifa followers across the country.\n\nIn response to Wray\u2019s non-answers, Rep. Mike Turner stated:\n\n\u201cIf you travel across the country to perpetrate violence you become local where you perpetrate the violence?\u201d\n\n\u201cPeople have seen with their own eyes the reports across the country and your testimony does not comport to what the American public are actually seeing, and it weakens their confidence.\u201d\n\nFollowing the hearing, Turner called on the FBI to further investigate Antifa and report to Congress on their source of funding, training, and activities.\n\n\u201cFBI Director Wray\u2019s testimony is disturbing and contradicts what the American people have seen with their own eyes\u2014a violent and dangerous organization. I call on the FBI to further investigate Antifa and report to Congress on their source of funding, training, and activities. With continued violence in Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland, downplaying this dangerous organization only puts American communities at further risk,\u201d said Turner.\n\nIn 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray explained to Congress that Antifa is not an organization but an ideology. Wray told lawmakers at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on worldwide threats that the greatest threat to the homeland, \u201cis not one organization, certainly not one ideology, but rather lone actors, largely self-radicalized online, who pursue soft targets using readily accessible weapons.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:42:19Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://turner.house.gov/2021/4/rep-mike-turner-oh-10-presses-fbi-director-for-answers-on-antifa-calls"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8172530215233564, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}