Risk of Terror Attack in United States Shockingly High - Guess Why?
By Ward Clark | 1:25 PM on June 19, 2024
It's always been a dangerous world, but when government policies endanger American citizens through either blindness, ignorance, or downright deliberate action, it's liable to set the risk much higher; that's what has been happening in the United States since, oh, January of 2021. The country is vulnerable to a terror attack, and sooner or later, it's liable to happen. Counter-terror experts are sounding the warning, but it seems not many people in Washington are listening.
"We are in a period where a number of factors are combining to make a terrorist attack on the homeland far more likely than it perhaps had been," says Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector who worked in counterterrorism for nearly 15 years.
Mauro said the risk of a potential new attack should be assessed in a criminal context – who has the means, motive and opportunity to successfully execute a deadly plot.
"The world has gotten a lot smaller since 9/11. You've got drones, the interconnectivity of the internet is more ubiquitous into areas that maybe didn't have that connectivity. You can get an uplink using something like an Elon Musk satellite. You can get online from the mountains of the Hindu Kush, you've got AI capabilities, you've had all that time to develop capabilities since 9/11 if you are still in the [terror] business."
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/...s-why-n2175680
