During Tuesday’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray expressed concern for the growing number of terrorist threats directed at the United States in the wake of the horrific terror attack carried out by Hamas against Israel.
Wray warns we are in a “dangerous period.”
“The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level,” Wray said in testimony before the committee.
“We are not currently tracking an imminent, credible threat from a foreign terrorist organization, a structured attack here or something like that, but it is something that we think heightened vigilance is warranted for,” he said.
“It is a time to be concerned,” he said. “We are in a dangerous period.”
At the same time, he urged Americans not to be intimidated.
“This is not a time for panic, but it is a time for vigilance,” he said. “We shouldn’t stop conducting our daily lives, going to schools, houses of worship and so forth. But we should be vigilant.”
BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray on U.S. terrorist attack threats- “It is a time to be concerned”
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