Update to this story.

Via NBC:

Attorney General Eric Holder, citing an “escalating danger from self-radicalized individuals within our own borders,” said Tuesday that the Justice Department will revive a domestic terrorism task force.

The task force was established after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 to share information about domestic threats. It was set to meet the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, after which the country turned its focus to terror overseas.

“But now, as the nature of the threat we face evolves to including the possibility of individual radicalization via the Internet, it is critical that we return our focus to potential extremists here at home,” Holder said in a weekly video.

The attorney general cited no specific domestic threat. But he said that the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, and the Boston Marathon bombings demonstrate the danger of homegrown terror.

The task force will comprise the Justice Department, the FBI and federal prosecutors, and will coordinate with law enforcement across the country to make sure information is shared, Holder said.

The FBI and prosecutors have broken up homegrown terror plots in recent years, he said, including “plans by ‘lone wolf’-style actors” trying to provide support to terror networks in Syria and elsewhere abroad.

Wait what?

Roll that tape back and listen again.

Did he just say that the “deadly shootings at Fort Hood” were terrorist attacks? Which one, or both? Hasn’t the administration called the shootings by Nidal Hassan “workplace violence”, denying the families of victims proper recognition and benefits? Therefore, it couldn’t be terrorism even with the contact to Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, and Hassan’s own words indicating his disturbance about the war

Perhaps he means the second shooting but there has been no indication whatever that that had anything at all to do with terrorism. So exactly what does he mean?

Of course formally recognizing the first Fort Hood attack as an attack at least in part connected to Al Qaeda wouldn’t look good for a president trying to claim that Al Qaeda “was on the defeat” despite it being truthful and giving the families of the victims the benefits they deserve.

He also cites the Boston Marathon bombings which were not exactly “homegrown terror” either, since both were Chechen.

Moreover, what does he mean “revive”? You mean we weren’t looking at domestic terrorism threats before?

Or perhaps there’s some other reason behind the activation of this “domestic force” beyond what we’ve been told…