tomder55
Jun 17, 2024, 05:14 AM
In the run up to the 9-11 attacks there were repeated warnings about terrorist attacks imminent. Those warnings were ignored and we were attacked . Since then repeated warnings by the intel community about threats have mostly not come to fruition.
In the 2 decades since the 9-11 attacks the nation has stopped obsessing every time there is a warning . Sometimes it feels as if the warnings come at politically convenient times.
The headlines read we face a serious threat of a terrorist attack in the months ahead of the run up to the elections.
‘ISIS isn’t done with us’: Arrested Tajiks highlight US fears of terror attack on US | CNN Politics (https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/politics/isis-us-fears-terror-attack/index.html)
Arrests of 8 with suspected ISIS ties in U.S. renew concern of terror attack - CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-suspected-isis-ties-terror-attack-us-concerns/)
In 'Foreign Affairs ;Michael Morell (former deputy director of the CIA) and Graham Allison (an analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy)write that there are striking echoes of the run-up to 9/11.
The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again | Foreign Affairs (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/terrorism-warning-lights-are-blinking-red-again)
DHS has no current advisories and they are the agency that is supposed to be on top of it.
National Terrorism Advisory System | Homeland Security (dhs.gov) (https://www.dhs.gov/national-terrorism-advisory-system)
So where does these new fears come from?
The heightened alerts come because of our open borders .
FBI Director Christopher Wray sounded the alarm to Congress again about the terror threat posed by the open border, just days before eight people suspected of ISIS ties were arrested across the United States.
Just a week ago, Wray appeared before the Senate Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies to review President Biden’s fiscal year 2025 funding request for the FBI. Like he has done when appearing to Congress before, Wray again addressed concerns about border security, explaining in a line of questioning by Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Ks., the challenges U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) faces at the border in vetting the large influx of asylum seekers for potential threats – before law enforcement must release them (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-pushes-re-open-calif-immigrant-detention-center-amid-lingering-covid-era-freeze) into the U.S.
"So certainly, we have seen over the last 5 to 6 years an increase in the number of known or suspected terrorists, in other words, watch-listed subjects attempting to cross the border. And that is of concern," Wray said. "The bigger problem, in my view, is twofold. One, individuals who, when they come in, are either armed with fake documents or snuck in some way or – or, and this is very important, individuals for whom there's not enough derogatory information in the intelligence community to watch list them yet"
FBI Director Wray warned of terror threat posed by open border days before 8 ISIS suspects arrested across US | Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-wray-warned-terror-threat-posed-open-border-days-before-8-isis-suspects-arrested-across-us)
“But what’s important about these reports and what we’re seeing, especially in conjunction with Director Wray’s public statements, that we are at the highest level of a possible terrorist threat, that the administration’s policies have absolutely directly related to threats to Americans,” Turner said, referring to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
He said these threats are “no longer speculative” and “not longer hypothetical.”
Turner says US is at ‘highest level of a possible terrorist threat’ (aol.com) (https://www.aol.com/turner-says-us-highest-level-155121121.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANjz-f3sjEML-VQNLCmSVlFj2V289WZhP8SXobKLG2YVp5ySiEBbWkikxpoT_Fu k7sChxoc3tz7KgiEJSDHKGa94tqDx0lEfsf6dLbDyFcoIRQQ7s u_pXBkbuLZwuPbYdu0ttsfidzpa1MchU1qDR9iYtQDT5GsRqAk vNa2emwmF)
A letter in January by intel experts warned Congress about the issue. An issue that has been largely ignored by Clueless Joe and the Dems .
'Military aged men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States, are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands — not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane but rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected with ready access granted,'
FILE_5247.pdf (wislawjournal.com) (https://wislawjournal.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2024/01/FILE_5247.pdf)
What possible political benefit could there be to allow this to continue ?
In the 2 decades since the 9-11 attacks the nation has stopped obsessing every time there is a warning . Sometimes it feels as if the warnings come at politically convenient times.
The headlines read we face a serious threat of a terrorist attack in the months ahead of the run up to the elections.
‘ISIS isn’t done with us’: Arrested Tajiks highlight US fears of terror attack on US | CNN Politics (https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/politics/isis-us-fears-terror-attack/index.html)
Arrests of 8 with suspected ISIS ties in U.S. renew concern of terror attack - CBS News (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-suspected-isis-ties-terror-attack-us-concerns/)
In 'Foreign Affairs ;Michael Morell (former deputy director of the CIA) and Graham Allison (an analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy)write that there are striking echoes of the run-up to 9/11.
The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again | Foreign Affairs (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/terrorism-warning-lights-are-blinking-red-again)
DHS has no current advisories and they are the agency that is supposed to be on top of it.
National Terrorism Advisory System | Homeland Security (dhs.gov) (https://www.dhs.gov/national-terrorism-advisory-system)
So where does these new fears come from?
The heightened alerts come because of our open borders .
FBI Director Christopher Wray sounded the alarm to Congress again about the terror threat posed by the open border, just days before eight people suspected of ISIS ties were arrested across the United States.
Just a week ago, Wray appeared before the Senate Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies to review President Biden’s fiscal year 2025 funding request for the FBI. Like he has done when appearing to Congress before, Wray again addressed concerns about border security, explaining in a line of questioning by Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Ks., the challenges U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) faces at the border in vetting the large influx of asylum seekers for potential threats – before law enforcement must release them (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-pushes-re-open-calif-immigrant-detention-center-amid-lingering-covid-era-freeze) into the U.S.
"So certainly, we have seen over the last 5 to 6 years an increase in the number of known or suspected terrorists, in other words, watch-listed subjects attempting to cross the border. And that is of concern," Wray said. "The bigger problem, in my view, is twofold. One, individuals who, when they come in, are either armed with fake documents or snuck in some way or – or, and this is very important, individuals for whom there's not enough derogatory information in the intelligence community to watch list them yet"
FBI Director Wray warned of terror threat posed by open border days before 8 ISIS suspects arrested across US | Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-wray-warned-terror-threat-posed-open-border-days-before-8-isis-suspects-arrested-across-us)
“But what’s important about these reports and what we’re seeing, especially in conjunction with Director Wray’s public statements, that we are at the highest level of a possible terrorist threat, that the administration’s policies have absolutely directly related to threats to Americans,” Turner said, referring to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
He said these threats are “no longer speculative” and “not longer hypothetical.”
Turner says US is at ‘highest level of a possible terrorist threat’ (aol.com) (https://www.aol.com/turner-says-us-highest-level-155121121.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANjz-f3sjEML-VQNLCmSVlFj2V289WZhP8SXobKLG2YVp5ySiEBbWkikxpoT_Fu k7sChxoc3tz7KgiEJSDHKGa94tqDx0lEfsf6dLbDyFcoIRQQ7s u_pXBkbuLZwuPbYdu0ttsfidzpa1MchU1qDR9iYtQDT5GsRqAk vNa2emwmF)
A letter in January by intel experts warned Congress about the issue. An issue that has been largely ignored by Clueless Joe and the Dems .
'Military aged men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States, are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands — not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane but rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected with ready access granted,'
FILE_5247.pdf (wislawjournal.com) (https://wislawjournal.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2024/01/FILE_5247.pdf)
What possible political benefit could there be to allow this to continue ?