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GOP attacks forced Pentagon working group on extremism to disband

An early Biden administration initiative to root out extremism in the military was designed to identify people like Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of perpetrating one of the biggest leaks of classified documents in modern history. More than two years after the Countering Extremism Working Group was formed inside the Pentagon, the effort has vanished virtually without a trace.