In the Wake of Israel’s war on Gaza, the intelligence community and the FBI believe that the threat of Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States has increased to its highest point since 9/11, according to testimony of senior officials. “It’s long been the case that the public and the media are quick to declare one threat over and gone, while they obsess over whatever’s shiny and new,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point earlier this month. Wray said that though many “commentators” claimed that the threat from foreign terrorist organizations was over, “a rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations [are calling] for attacks against Americans and our allies.”
“The FBI assesses HVEs as the greatest, most immediate international terrorism threat to the homeland,” Wray said in his November testimony to Congress, adding that “HVEs are people located and radicalized to violence primarily in the United States, who are not receiving individualized direction from [foreign terrorist organizations] but are inspired by FTOs, including the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (“ISIS”) and al-Qa’ida and their affiliates, to commit violence.”
Though the FBI is focused on homegrown threats, Wray does say that after months of chasing down an influx in leads, his counterterrorism division has started “to see those numbers level off,” adding that “we expect that October 7 and the conflict that’s followed will feed a pipeline of radicalization and mobilization for years to come.”
@WorldlyFr33domLibertarian3mos3MO
The intelligence community and military industrial complex must be salivating
@JumpyL1bertyNo Labels3mos3MO
I would argue that this creates a precedent for strengthening the existing surveillance state & increased spending on law enforcement. The FBI directly benefits from this, why would they want to actually do anything about it lol
Rather odd that only now the federal government is warning that funding the genocide of kids in Gaza is going to cause future wars against the kids in Gaza.
Wasn't this always obvious?
@LoyalCrowGreen3mos3MO
To the people that run US foreign policy? No. Nothing is obvious to those people, as can be seen by their amazing track record of success in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria.
@PonyRichieGreen3mos3MO
It's almost like taking away everything from people is a bad idea. Oh well. No where in recent memory could this lesson have been learned.
@ResoluteThrusheSocialist3mos3MO
This and Schumer's comments feels like something finally broke through. Bit late, though. Guess this will be used to justify counter-radicalization efforts of the military variety.
@PonyRichieGreen3mos3MO
What broke through is their poll numbers. Biden could have had a slam dunk in November, but it will be a miracle if he squeaks by the electoral college with no room to spare.
@GiddySheepTranshumanist3mos3MO
The idea that Israel will "destroy Hamas" by bombing Gaza into dust is absurd.
If Israel murdered your child, mother, brother, father - what would you do? Surrender?
Or resist?
@QuaintLobbyTranshumanist3mos3MO
American foreign policy always being responsible for some kind of disaster. We destroyed democracy with operation Ajax, so Iran hates us. We destroyed Afghanistan secular government to defeat the Soviet union so now the Taliban controls that place and now this is happening
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