The Threat of Terrorism in America Has Returned
"There is increasing reason to believe that there could be a terrorist attack on the United States in the months ahead”
By Denise Rivette
Will Selber, a recently retired strategic-level terrorism analyst for the United States, has provided his analysis (link below) of the threats of Islamic terrorism to the U.S. in the wake of the arrest on June 11 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of eight Tajik nationals with ties to the Islamic State. “Most importantly,” he writes, “some of the men crossed the southern border, requested asylum, and passed the initial screening. It wasn’t until members of the American intelligence community sniffed out some extremist rhetoric on social media that federal law enforcement scrambled to apprehend the men.”
The United States’ immigration and intelligence systems need ongoing review and revision. These systems are influenced by presidential administrations that come and go, but are institutions designed and funded by Congress and are ideally built to serve the people of the United States regardless of who is sitting in the Oval Office.
