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Ignore FBI director's urgent warning about terrorist threats at our own peril

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19.03.2024

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday over whether there is a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump or Biden campaigns.

During the annual congressional briefing on the top "worldwide threats" facing the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray recently issued a warning that terrorist threats have reached a "whole other level" from the already heightened situation.

Wray revealed that the intelligence community has not seen the type of threat of terrorist attacks that is emerging now "in a long, long time," calling the threat actors "a veritable rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations.

As a former senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, I participated in the development of the Intelligence Community’s Annual Threat Assessments, the kind that Director Wray and five other top U.S. intelligence briefed to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees this week. My analysis of the 2024 unclassified threat assessment and the testimonies delivered by the Directors of National Intelligence, FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA, and Assistant Secretary of State Department, suggest that there is a growing likelihood that there could be a terrorist attack on U.S. soil in the coming months. Here's why:

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FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on threats to the homeland, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Even the unclassified versions of last week's Congressional testimonies as well as the written report outlining the worldwide threats sounded very alarming. Consider the following statement made by Wray. "The threats from homegrown violent extremists that is jihadist-inspired, extremists, domestic violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations, and state-sponsored terrorist organizations all being elevated at one time since October 7, though, that threat has gone to a whole other level."

"Even before October 7, I would have told........

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