On Friday on FNC's “Fox & Friends,” Jeh Johnson, who served as DHS secretary under former President Barack Obama, said the threat from “terrorist-inspired attacks” in the United States is “on the rise.” ” he said.
Mr Johnson said: “We are currently in the midst of an evolving and growing threat. With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and the attack two days ago, ISIS now feels emboldened. And there are some major security events coming up. One of them is Inauguration Day, and then a few weeks later, the Super Bowl.And what I said to the people at DHS during my tenure was of a very different nature, rather than just reacting to the last attack. I would like to say the same thing: predict the next attack that may occur.
Furthermore, “We can see that the terrorist threat to our country has evolved from terrorist-directed attacks in which foreign terrorist organizations direct large-scale attacks against the United States.A prime example of this is 9/11, an attempted underwear bomb. Incidents. Remember the shoe bombing attempts, Richard Reid, they were direct attacks by terrorists. Around 2013-2014, they evolved into what we now call “terrorism-inspired attacks.'' In this attack, a terrorist organization on the Internet attempts to radicalize someone living in this country to carry out a terrorist act themselves. terrorist attack. When I was at DHS, we saw a ton of these cases in 2014, 2015, and 2016. And that threat has not gone away, and I am concerned that it is now becoming even more of a threat. ”
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