The Obama administration included homegrown threats in its National Security Strategy in 2010.
Greenberg worries that by focusing on the threat posed by foreign-born individuals rather than homegrown extremism, the Trump administration could be missing the mark with its counterterrorism strategy.
Mr. Rhodes said Iraq's legacy was visible in the administration's insistence on homegrown, rather than externally imposed, democratic change.
As for the FBI's homegrown eco-terrorist campaign, the Obama administration ought to set it aside.
But senior officials in the State Department and C.I.A. argue that the administration should encourage a homegrown leadership, not impose one.
The formal gathering in Berlin -- or at some nearby venue, as yet unspecified -- was to be limited to about 30 Afghans, in line with Mr. Brahimi's insistence that any nascent administration be perceived as "homegrown".
The state program, which Lt. Gov. Brian E. Dubie started in 2004 and Mr. Douglas has made the centerpiece of his administration, is also intended to cultivate homegrown brainpower in Vermont, which has been losing young people at a rapid clip.
In fact, a good deal of American prosperity is being lost, but if there are homegrown agents of this decline, they're not in the administration.
As for the hearings, he noted that counterterrorism officials from the Obama administration have often spoken, especially since a string of largely homegrown plots since 2009, of the threat from American Muslims who take on radical views.
The outcome was a significant defeat for the Bush administration, which had described the case as a major crackdown on homegrown terrorists.
