Former FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe suggested on Tuesday that the bureau is “spreading” its “terrorist resources too thin” as agents are being diverted to handle illegal immigration.

McCabe raised the concern on CNN while discussing the agency’s domestic terrorism task force, aimed at investigating a surge in vandalism targeting Tesla vehicles. According to McCabe, the FBI shouldn’t need to “move resources” for such efforts because there is already a “long-established domestic terrorism section … that was built to do exactly this.”

“So this raises questions for me about why isn’t the current state of the bureau’s defense domestic terrorism investigators good enough to handle this?” McCabe asked. “And could it be because they have recently [been] distracted and tasked with engaging in immigration activity?”

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