Statement of Secretary Janet Napolitano before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Nine Years After 9/11: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland, September 22, 2010
“Chairman Lieberman, Senator Collins, and members of the Committee: Thank you for this opportunity to testify on the continuing and evolving terrorist threat to the United States. Today I would like to highlight the main ways in which the terrorist threat to our country is changing – ways that increasingly challenge law enforcement and the intelligence community. I would also like to highlight some specific – though not exhaustive – ways that the Department of Homeland Security is moving to address this evolving threat…Homegrown terrorists represent a new and changing facet of the terrorist threat. To be clear, by “homegrown,” I mean terrorist operatives who are U.S. persons and who were radicalized in the United States and learned terrorist tactics either here or in training camps in places such as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Terrorist organizations are increasingly seeking operatives who are familiar with the United States or the West. In their roles as terrorist planners, operational facilitators, and operatives, these individuals improve the terrorist groups’ knowledge of Western and American culture and security practices, which can increase the likelihood that an attempted attack could be successful.”
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