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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Wray warns of terror attacks
Date: 10/31/23 4:51 PM
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townhall.com - FBI director wray it is a time to be concerned about terrorism in the US

'Wake Up, It Is a Time to Be Concerned': FBI Director Wray Issues Stark Warning at Committee Hearing

(No, I don't care how much you people hate Townhall. Learn to process relevant material. In this case what's relevant is what Wray is saying.)

In a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray provided some worrying ' if not outright alarming ' answers to questions from U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) regarding current terrorist threats against the homeland.

"What has now increased is the greater possibility of one of these foreign terrorist organizations directing an attack in the United States," Wray told senators on the committee. "We haven't seen evidence that it's actually happening yet, but what we have seen is ' and I listed them off in my opening remarks ' one terrorist organization after another calling for attacks," he explained. "We should wake up, it is a time to be concerned ' we are in a dangerous period."


Hmm. How might terrorists be getting into the country?

Sen. Scott asked whether the FBI is able to track threats and prevent terrorist attacks within the United States.

"I couldn't say that we're able to detect all individuals," Wray replied. "The people that we know about ' as Secretary Rumsfeld used to say, 'the known known' ' we're quite good at, together with our partners. But it is 'the unknown unknown' that I worry about quite a bit,"


What a reassuring answer. The next one is even better:
Sen. Scott followed up by asking whether the FBI is aware of any terrorist organizations operating in the United States at present. Again, Wray's answer was less than reassuring.

"Well, we're not tracking that," Wray responded. "But again, I can point back to what it is ' the gaps in our intelligence are real and it's something that we have concerns about."


Now if these were parents at some school board or some dude wearing a MAGA hat outside of an abortion clinic silently praying, you can bet the FBI has a file as a think as the Yellow Pages on those effers. Actual terrorists who want to murder Americans? Yeah, not so much.

The FBI is ridiculous. As in, a ridiculous agency that's lost the plot in terms of what its mission is and focus areas should be. Hopefully we as a nation don't pay a price for it.

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