FBI Director Wray Delivers Alarming Assessment of Terror Threat in the U.S.

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.

This from townhall.com.

Wray told senators on the committee:

What has now increased is the greater possibility of one of these foreign terrorist organizations directing an attack in the United States.

He explained:

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.

We should wake up, it is a time to be concerned—we are in a dangerous period.

Below is Wray’s opening on the FBI’s assessment:

[T]he actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration, the likes of which we haven’t seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate several years ago.

Given that sobering assessment and emphasis on the need to be “concerned” about the “dangerous” situation the U.S. homeland is in regarding potential terrorist attacks, Sen. Scott asked whether the FBI is able to track threats and prevent terrorist attacks within the United States.

Wray replied:

I couldn’t say that we’re able to detect all individuals. The people that we know about—as Secretary Rumsfeld used to say, ‘the known known’—we’re quite good at, together with our partners.

He revealed:

But it is ‘the unknown unknown’ that I worry about quite a bit.

Since, as Wray said, the FBI is unable to “detect all individuals,” 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.

Wray responded:

Well, we’re not tracking that.

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.

There ought to be a lot more concern about these “gaps” in FBI intelligence that Wray said means his agency isn’t “tracking” whether terrorist groups are currently operating in the United States. And maybe less FBI effort on hunting down concerned parents who spoke up at school board meetings or pro-life activists who wouldn’t hurt a fly.

After doing anything but reassure Americans that the FBI is working or able to protect the homeland from terrorists, Sen. Scott asked what Wray’s message to concerned citizens would be.

Wray said after explaining the serious issues with the FBI’s ability to track terrorists or prevent an attack:

This is not a time for panic, but it is a time for vigilance,

He warned:

We shouldn’t stop conducting our daily lives, going to schools, houses of worship, and so forth, but we should be vigilant.

Wray reminded:

You often hear the expression, ‘if you see something, say something.’

That’s never been more true than now, and that’s probably partly why the American people are reporting more tips and leads to us.

Wray concluded in an attempt to reassure Americans:

[A]nd we’re pursuing those threats and leads as vigorously and responsibly as we can.

Final thoughts: The lies of Christopher Wray along with those of a Director of the Counter Terrorism Center with the name of ‘Abizaid’ do not provide We the People with much reassurance.