{"id":20568,"date":"2010-09-23T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20568"},"modified":"2010-09-23T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T13:29:31","slug":"fbi-chief-warns-of-impending-terrorist-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20568","title":{"rendered":"FBI chief warns of impending terrorist attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/homegrown-terror-threat-significant-officails\/story?id=11699198\">this link to ABC <\/a>who reports that the FBI&#8217;s contends that terrorism, or the threat of terrorism, is on the rise in America today;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=0 width=0 height=0 src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyODUyNDc4MDI*NjMmcHQ9MTI4NTI*NzgxMjY2NSZwPTEyNTg*MTEmZD1BQkNOZXdzX1NGUF9Mb2NrZV9FbWJlZCZn\/PTImbz*3YWJkMjBlODA2NzA*Yzg2YTVmNmQ3NDA1YjYwMTY5MSZvZj*w.gif\" \/><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" id=\"ABCESNWID\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&#038;configId=406732&#038;clipId=11703384&#038;showId=11699198&#038;gig_lt=1285247802463&#038;gig_pt=1285247812665&#038;gig_g=2\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt.swf\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" flashvars=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&#038;configId=406732&#038;clipId=11703384&#038;showId=11699198&#038;gig_lt=1285247802463&#038;gig_pt=1285247812665&#038;gig_g=2\" name=\"ABCESNWID\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that it&#8217;s finally al Qaeda and not our returning veterans, I suppose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Groups affiliated with al Qaeda are now actively targeting the United States and looking to use Americans or Westerners who are able to remain undetected by heightened security measures,&#8221; Mueller said. &#8220;It appears domestic extremism and radicalization appears to have become more pronounced based on the number of disruptions and incidents.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, with the elections approaching, it probably an attempt to highlight the fact that the Democrat administration was able to use the tools left in place by the Bush Administration successfully and have been able to keep us safe thus far. But then we had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2010\/09\/22\/130040247\/obama-says-we-can-absorb-a-terrorist-attack-your-thoughts?ft=1&#038;f=1004\">the President telling Bob Woodward that we&#8217;re able to absorb a terrorist attack<\/a>. I guess he&#8217;s willing to sacrifice a relatively few Americans for the greater good.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;During the past year our nation has dealt with the most significant developments in the terrorist threat to the Homeland since 9\/11,&#8221; [National Counterterrorism Chief Michael] Leiter told the committee. &#8220;The attack threats are now more complex, and the diverse array of threats tests our ability to respond, and makes it difficult to predict where the next attack may come. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, we can&#8217;t always count on wet matches to confound a terrorist plot as they&#8217;ve done in the past. Someday, terrorists are going to learn how to use Bic lighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends us this link to ABC who reports that the FBI&#8217;s contends that terrorism, &hellip; <a title=\"FBI chief warns of impending terrorist attacks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20568\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI chief warns of impending terrorist attacks<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}