FBI director tells Congress Hamas supporters ‘may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil’
FBI lost count of how many paid informants were at Capitol on Jan. 6, and later performed audit to figure out exact number: ex-officialFBI offices ‘coordinated’ on Catholic targeting memo: House GOP“The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023,” Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during a hearing.
The FBI director also noted that foreign terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda have also called for attacks on US soil in addition to rocket and drone attacks carried out by Iran-backed jihadists against American military bases in Iraq and Syria.Wray’s testimony comes amid widespread protests in major US cities and on college campuses, in which pro-Palestinian demonstrators have expressed support for Hamas.
“When Israel has been invaded and Jewish students are barricaded in libraries in this country and cannot be escorted out because they are threatened for their lives,” Hawley shot back, “you have employees who are celebrating genocide. And you are saying it’s despicable for me to ask the question. Has she been fired?”
“What I found despicable is the implication that this language, tremendously odious, actually, could be emblematic of the sentiments of the 260,000 men and women of the Department of Homeland Security,” Mayorkas responded.
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