Is President Barack Obama more concerned about being politically correct than he is about keeping Americans safe?
According to some critics, yes. And the director of the FBI has a warning — up to a thousand possible ISIS recruits are currently on American soil.
And more may be coming.
So why isn’t the president rounding them up?
The director of the FBI said Tuesday that the Islamic State group is currently the main threat facing the United States, both in its efforts to recruit fighters to join its members overseas and to have others carry out violence in America.
Director James Comey said the ISIS group poses a third potential threat: a “terrorist diaspora” that he said will eventually flow out of Syria and Iraq and end up in Western Europe, where members will have easy access to the U.S.
In fact, the FBI is already investigation 1,000 people in the U.S. who may be ISIS recruits or sympathizers.
“There’s three prongs to this ISIL threat,” Comey said, using an alternative acronym for the terror group. “The recruitment to travel, the recruitment to violence in place, and then what you saw a preview of in Brussels and in Paris — hardened fighters coming out, looking to kill people.”
He said officials are “laser-focused on that.”
Comey took questions from reporters Tuesday in the FBI’s Minneapolis office as part of a two-day visit to the region that included meetings with community leaders and local law enforcement. Comey responded to questions about the heroin epidemic, shootings involving officers and surveillance issues, but the bulk of his comments were about the Islamic State group.
Last week, three Minnesota men from a former Somali refugee community were accused of plotting to join the ISIS group were convicted of conspiring to commit murder overseas — which carries a potential life sentence — as well as conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and other charges.
The defendants — Guled Ali Omar, 21; Abdirahman Yasin Daud, 22; and Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 22 — were among a group of friends who prosecutors say recruited and inspired each other to travel to Syria. A total of 10 men were charged in the conspiracy; six pleaded guilty and a seventh is at large, believed to be fighting in Syria.
Comey said the FBI is continuing to focus on the Islamic State group, and there are close to 1,000 open cases nationwide involving people at various stages of recruitment. He said the group’s slick videos and propaganda can resonate with people of all ages, but seem to draw in people under 30 who are “unmoored” in some way.
He said he hopes the FBI’s work, including the convictions in Minneapolis, will send a message that “there will be severe consequences for people who go down that path.”
Comey added that the number of active ISIS-related cases hasn’t decreased, but the number of people seeking to travel to Syria has dropped since the end of last summer — going from about six to 10 attempted travelers each month to about one or two.
He said he can’t pinpoint the reasons for the trend, but it’s possible people are traveling to other Islamic State outposts, have been deterred by the outcomes of other criminal cases, or have been stopped by families and community members.
Another — and more disturbing — possibility is that some are staying in the U.S. and looking to carry out violence here, Comey said.
“It’s good news the traveler numbers have come down,” he said. “I don’t know exactly what to make of it yet.”
Comey was in Williston, North Dakota, on Monday to open a new FBI office that will focus on crime in the Bakken region, which has spiked with the oil boom. The FBI’s Minneapolis division covers Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Folks -a little over 200 days and we take our country back. Keep your powder dry until then – hunting season may open up and you don’t even need to buy a license, win the hunting license lotto or have quantity restrictions
TRUMP FOR THE RESTORATION OF OUR REPUBLIC
Folks -a little over 200 days and we take our country back. Keep your powder dry until then – hunting season may open up and you don’t even need to buy a license, win the hunting license lotto or have quantity restrictions
TRUMP FOR THE RESTORATION OF OUR REPUBLIC
BO is bring Muslims in everyday by the Plane Load…I am sure the FBI has knows we have BIG trouble ahead for Americans! God help us, Please!
99% of these “refugess” that Obama is bringing in are muslims, so I am fine with not bringing in any more of them. The fact is that muslim immigrants are much more likely to commit terrorist acts than immigrants of any other religion. Trump is right that we should stop all muslim immigration into the USA!
If the FBI know about them why wait ? arrest them , and get going on the rest that are coming. You nimwits know sissyman is letting them in to the US and yet nothing is being done to remove him from office . Need help ? I know Vets that will give you a hand at getting him out if you need it . Why let S–t go on when you know it ? What happened to the oath all you jackasses took to protect the American people from terrorist enemies ? I grant you that none of the Veterans have forgotten that oath, even the Military now knows their oath.
Put a help wanted add in the paper for
Glock Vigilante just to see how many responses you might get ?
And yet we have 400 FBI agents creating a fake case of terrorism against ranchers so Hillary and EEOC can sell minerals to foriegn donors. Abuse of power, malfeasance in office to FBI director. You guys lost the Boston bombers, were never even close on San Bernardino, screwed up again (same as 9/11) in Aurora,, screwed up 9/11 ( or did you?), And are not focused on terrorists coming in or already here with all available resources. I reported a mailfraud and banking countefiet scheme to FBI and had the guy ready to pick up the money, and I didn’t even get a call back.
This is all the FAULT of the Obama administration and here is the reason why. Obama is letting ALL of these foreigners into this country and they are not being checked properly or as they call it vetted. There is NO WAY that they can do background checks on these people from other countries. It is impossible to do the checks. Now Germany is having a massive crime wave from the same type of foreigners. If that happens in the U.S., then i may be wrong, but they could cause riots all across the country. Then Obama could enact Martial Law and that way he could stay in power as president. Just a thought.
Dont believe that…. if and i say if that were to happen old uncle Joe would have to take over the reins…… untill Trump is sworn in as CIC..
GoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooTrump
when obama term ends hes out no matter what
Hopefully the FBI can identify these ISIS recruits, track down their associates and ship them all to prison. Part of the reason fewer people may be traveling to Syria for ISIS training is that ISIS is now training recruits inside the United States. Last year I saw a program on a Christian satellite channel that identified 30 Muslim training sites in the United States. From the map it looked like these were spread evenly around the U.S.
The ISIS members that are now here in the U.S. Are mostly in areas where they can & will go unnoticed, undected and where there are large
populations of people of their own background. Now is the time to stop them cold in their tracks before they get a chance to start & make trouble.
Once those animals of ISIS get going, they will make things tough and will get away with it.
—- Our Evil and Worthless Government and N.W.O. in High places will have a Final Judgment someday by The Masters—-
And as it is appointed unto men and women once to die. But after this the Judgment. Heb. 9:27 (paraphrase)
For you know not what shall be on tomorrow. For what is your life ? It is a vapor, that appeareth for a moment only,
and then vanished away compared to eternity. James 4:14 (paraphrase)
For our evil Government and the N.W.O. and evil people in high places. Be not deceived. God is not mocked: for whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption and Hell. Galatians
6: 7-8. (paraphrase)
The final conclusion is the Masters(Father, Savior, Holy Spirit) Do not fear them which kill the body, but are not able to kill
your soul. But rather fear the Masters who are able to destroy both soul and body in Hell. Matthew 10:28 (paraphrase)
GLAD I OWN WEAPONS TO DEFEND MY HOME. MAY BUY MORE…… WE’RE GOING TO NEED THEM! …. IT MAY BE TIME FOR THAT WELL REGULATED MILITIA SINCE WE CAN’T DEPEND ON OUR PRESIDENT TO DO HIS JOB, DON’T YOU THINK?
GOD BLESS AMERICA!.
The Horn article reports that the FBI says there are a thousand ISIS terrorists in-country.
i believe that the number is much closer to 200,000, for i have information that over 10k Muslim men of fighting age are smuggled into the US every month since the beginning of D’OweBama’s occupancy, on converted UPS planes coming into country airports between the hours of 3 and 5AM, then being spirited away in tour buses to unknown destinations.