A mid an unprecedented surge in illegal entries into the United States and mounting calls for a global jihad as the Israel-Hamas conflict escalates, U.S. officials are vocalizing increasingly urgent warnings that the U.S. is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
The ongoing Israeli conflict with the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group has threatened to spill over into neighboring nations and the myriad anti-Israel factions have called for violence, both on the middle-eastern battlefields and abroad, in retaliation for the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip.
Be they existing lawmakers, intelligence officials, border authorities, or security veterans of prior administrations, the nation’s leading figures on terrorism have become distinguishably of one mind about the United States’ security vulnerabilities.
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee and painted a bleak picture of the national security situation and even his agency’s ability to prevent acts of terrorism.
“What has now increased is the greater possibility of one of these foreign terrorist organizations directing an attack in the United States,” Wray said. “This is not a time for panic, but it is a time for vigilance.”
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