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FBI top dog Comey: Feds have 900 active investigations of Islamic State operatives in U.S.

Oct 23, 2015 11:24 am By Robert Spencer

“Because the pace of the investigations has varied in the last several months, Comey said it was still unclear whether the bureau had the necessary resources to meet the demand. Comey referred to a particularly taxing period in mid-summer when federal authorities expressed public concern about the prospect of an attack around the July Fourth holiday. ‘If that becomes the new normal … That would be hard to keep up,’ the director said…” The Islamic State is trying to make that the new normal. Their goal is to overwhelm law enforcement with so many jihad plots, so many jihad attacks, that the feds will not be able to keep up, and the system will collapse. The fact that it is the Obama FBI’s official policy to ignore and deny the motivating ideology of the jihadis also makes them harder to track, as the feds are clueless about their values, priorities, and how their core beliefs have impact upon the choices they make.

James Comey

“Comey: Feds have roughly 900 domestic probes about Islamic State operatives,” by Kevin Johnson, USA Today, October 23, 2015:

WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey said Friday that federal authorities have an estimated 900 active investigations pending against suspected Islamic State-inspired operatives across the country.

In a speech to intelligence officials, Comey said that the number of inquiries is “slowly climbing” as ISIL has sought to expand their reach into the U.S., targeting largely young, disaffected potential operatives through a provocative social media campaign….

Because the pace of the investigations has varied in the last several months, Comey said it was still unclear whether the bureau had the necessary resources to meet the demand. Comey referred to a particularly taxing period in mid-summer when federal authorities expressed public concern about the prospect of an attack around the July Fourth holiday.

“If that becomes the new normal … That would be hard to keep up,” the director said, though he said the pace has eased somewhat recently.

Since July 1, the director said, investigators have been tracking a decline in numbers of Americans seeking to travel to Syria to join forces with ISIL. But it is unclear how that drop-off may be affecting the domestic threat….

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  1. Katnis says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 11:32 am

    With the increased risk in the US, it makes NO SENSE to invite more refugees – fake or real – into this country. Clearly, we are not adequately prepared to manage the ones we’ve already let in.

    #STOP MUSLIM IMMIGRATION

    • underbed cat says

      Oct 23, 2015 at 12:03 pm

      FBI Director James Comey…..thank you for these investigations, I heard the televised comments you made and the concern you expressed. It gives me hope and despair at the same time. I just hope the military leaders heard this and could extrapolate the message that connects an ideology with terror. If this refugee situation continues, the leadership misleads the politicians and citizens are lulled into unsuspecting future…I do not want to see a cresant moon.

    • Lichen says

      Oct 24, 2015 at 1:09 am

      I agree with you in principle, but HOW do you stop “Muslim” immigration? Ask everyone what religion they are? They can simply lie about it. There is NO WAY to tell if a person crossing into the U.S. is a Muslim or not (unless they have a burqa on). We can stop immigration from certain nationalities, where we know the percentage of a Muslim pop. is very high, but even then, we cannot stop Muslims from entering who are from EU countries, for example. It is a very complicated issue, and we have to think very carefully about how to handle it realistically.

      • Lynn says

        Oct 24, 2015 at 10:44 am

        Japan handles it well. Have we heard about the problems they are having with moslems? No. Because they have strict rules/laws and the moslems know it and they merely go where resolve is weak and diluted by PC BS. A few other countries have put down their foot and do not let moslems migrate in to become citizens.

        Watch Why We Are Afraid, A 1,400 Year Secret offered by Bill Warner.It’s very instructive. I just watched it again for a refresher.

        The DEMs or the now DEMCOMMIES want as many immigrants as possible as fast as they can get ’em here. It will take decades to undo the damage done by obama and hillary. She if she gets to potus standing will just finish the job.

        The Chamber of Commerce cares not the origin of a cheap work or their ethics/morals. They just want MONEY; living and breathing honest hard working people unaware of the CoC goals will be who pays the cost. Placing Ryan as Speaker will help seal our fate to oar benches in the government boat.

        The Cairo Human Rights Declaration is also another thing driving the conversation. Can’t call a spade a spade any more. Human Rights means moslem rights; NOT human rights. And they (moslems) plan on making the rules stick.

        Here they come, there they are, don’t look at ’em…isn’t a plan.

        Until we get some strong national leaders we are just going to be more dots on Warner’s map/timeline of conquests…….

        • Frederick P Gibson says

          Oct 25, 2015 at 8:23 pm

          Obama has ordered his entire Administration into
          Sharia Compliance. Obama aides and abets Islam
          at every opportunity. He is a genuine “Quisling” to Islam.
          Islam does not come to integrate or assimilate.
          Islam comes ONLY to: Conquer, Submit, Convert, or Kill.

  2. somehistory says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 11:38 am

    900 besides the ones they don’t know about yet, and those who have just begun to be washed of all normal brain cells in exchange for demonically inspired direction.

  3. Charli Main says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 11:46 am

    The FBI is clearly a racist, bigoted, xenophobic, white supremacist organisation run by islamophobes. Scrutinising any member of the religion of peace is clearly unwarranted persecution of all those poor victimised Muslims. (just having a laugh, folks)

  4. Christianblood says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    Saudi Arabia, ISIS, Qatar, Turkey and many other barbaric islamic jihadist groups/countries are all allied with the USA in the M.E.’s war against Christians and Assad and yet USA is whining that ISIS is going to attack them at home. What going on here?

    • Budvarakbar says

      Oct 23, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      Starting to catch on – are we?

  5. Westman says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    If Senator Durbin has his way, bringing 100,000 “Syrian refugees” to the US, there will be a new normal of the current new normal. If only 1% are militant it’s another 1000 potential Jihadists to track.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Oct 23, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      Job security for FBI, local LE, and especially the lahyahs

    • Jeremiah says

      Oct 23, 2015 at 10:09 pm

      It will be closer to 100,000 than to 1,000. In any case the decision to bring in Muslims is insane.

  6. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    How many investigations are there of jihadists and would-be jihadists in the U.S.? Over a thousand?

    How many investigations are there of Christians or Jews considering or planning terror to spread/defend Judaism or Christianity in the U.S.? Zero? Three? Ten? And if there are even ten such cases, how many of those ten are categorized in that way as part of the government’s desperate struggle to be politically correct?

  7. Jay Boo says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    Off Topic
    I would just like to say that despite the minor distraction at first sighting with the new pop up ads, I think it is great to see familiar mainstream ads.

  8. Angemon says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 2:15 pm

    FBI Director James Comey said Friday that federal authorities have an estimated 900 active investigations pending against suspected Islamic State-inspired operatives across the country.

    Would there be more if they could spare the manpower from investigations into “right-wing extremists”?

  9. Undaunted says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    Knowing the FBI the way I do, they’re not counting preliminary investigations that will turn into “full” investigations and other raw data chases. If they say 900 its twice that number.

  10. Jeremiah says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    . . . and they say peace when there is no peace! Trying to win a war by pretending it is a criminal action is a new approach. I was once told you kill a flee by catching it first and then drowning it in hydrogen peroxide. To Obama that would be a perfectly logical solution.

    The alternative is to use the weapons you have and destroy them where they are, quickly as you can find them. Then find the war criminals (which in ISIS case appears to be everybody) and execute them.

    To allow Obama to swamp our Courts is crazy. Those who support that (the FBI and the DOJ) need a shrink.

  11. Arthur says

    Oct 23, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    The only way to keep a Muslim population in line, looking around the globe, would seem to be a tyrannical dictatorship without significant individual freedoms. Perhaps government leaders have sensed that high rates of Muslim immigration could be create a winning argument for expanding government authority.

  12. Baucent says

    Oct 24, 2015 at 12:15 am

    900 wannabee jihadists under investigation. Can anyone see any likelihood that these numbers will decline in future years? I certainly can’t. It doesn’t matter what so called moderate muslims do, the attraction of Islamist doctrine is just too powerful.
    In fact, the Islamic State being vaporized in Syria and Iraq would do nothing to stop this disease. It will grow and continue to grow finding willing devotees in the new army of immigrants who will be stuck in ghettos and migrant centres in Europe with out jobs or prospects.

  13. DeMolay says

    Oct 24, 2015 at 5:22 am

    Did anyone else see ‘my son fhe jihadi’ to show here in the uk on Thursday night?
    Wow, just wow.
    How are these mosques not being shut down? If ‘nazi meeting halls’ were all over the country inciting people to become nazis would be allow them to continue? Of course not. There’s no difference.

    • Thaaff says

      Oct 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm

      DeMolay, that is exactly what I have been wondering! I can’t believe the number of mosques that are being built throughout the country, or the sad fact that it’s being quietly accepted by the people who are suddenly living among them! Obviously, our state legislators and officials are either enabling this out of political correctness or they are simply too gutless to raise an objection to or stand against it! If we the people are going to continue to go about our lives ignoring this ominous development, the end result will most certainly prove to be an out of control situation that may require more drastic action down the road! There are avenues that we can take to address our concerns, like communicating individually or in a group with members of our state legislatures (really?), or even starting a discourse on social media as you have! Like you and I, there must be a growing number of like-minded Americans throughout the country who are similarly frustrated over this, but don’t have a clue about how to at least sound the alarm in a cohesive way that might have an impact. We may have no representation or support from either the government or the media, but there are alot more of us than of them – the real power is in we the people, even if many have forgotten that! We do have the internet and social media at our disposal, so every concerned citizen can and should begin to bring about awareness, education and hopefully a sense of vigilance across America that might at least bring about public discourse concerning not only these mosques, which are being used to incite hatred and violence, but also about the growing Islamic agenda that has been polluting our public schools! Although all of this is being forced upon Americans by this present Islamic Muslim Brotherhood federal administration we, cannot remain silent about this, nor should we be the least bit afraid of the bullying tactics that many Muslims engage in, or the empty name-calling attacks and intimidation that we can always expect from the left! Kudos to you, DeMolay, for bringing this subject up! God bless!

  14. Louiebaby says

    Oct 24, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Islam spreads by the sword it is forced, because it takes advantage of a disarmed populace it can easily takeover countries with weak armies and unarmed citizenry.. Islam cant comprehend true freedom because Islam demands its adherents submit to and become slaves to Allah, This statement is not offensive to Muslims because they only understand they are beneath Allah. America is unique in that guns are legal, in fact theirs 101.25 guns for 100 people. 9 million NRA members account for a tiny percentage of armed citizenry but even just counting the NRA numbers the NRA membership alone is 32 times the size of our standing Army.
    Islam looks at its own history of conquest but cant begin to understand the impossibility of ever conquering the USA because Islam cannot understand what freedom really means. A rational Islam would be Islam no longer. Islam knows how to take advantage of freedom, in that it makes demands that gradually become greater and greater until the “host” country is forced to adhere to Sharia to satisfy an immigrant population. A population that demands we surrender our freedoms they find offensive. It starts small with freedom of speech and art, As England bans Gert Wilders, to sporadic Charlie Hebdo type massacres it is an assault on freedom of speech and Art.
    As the Immigrant populations increase more “demands” must be met. Examples are special pools for Muslims only in schools, demands employers provide feet washing facilities etc..As the Immigrant population increases further bigger demands must be satisfied, Denmark ban on all pork products or Germany’s recommendation all girls wear burkas as not to entice the Immigrants to rape them. Adhering to Islam IS submission to Islam and this is forced conversion. Whether your from Tennessee and shocked 3rd graders are being forced to submit to Koranic studies sponsored by CAIR, Or a Florida high school student forced to recite the Shahida as a requirement to graduate, organizations like CAIR are not only violating their tax free status by becoming politically motivated ( Ben Carson) or by violating separation of Church ( Mosque) and State Law.

    • Kepha says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 8:53 am

      Interesting that the Muslims want Apartheid, and the Left wants to accommodate this.

      • Thaaff says

        Oct 28, 2015 at 10:07 pm

        Thankyou, Louiebaby, for your very informative post! It is appalling how Muslims have been forcing their twisted way of life down the throats of Europeans simply because they can’t fight back! I am amazed by the lack of outrage from the parents of the students that you cited, who were bullied into compliance into having to recite Islamic precepts against their will, and against their rights to free speech! I am seriously hoping that there are many more of our citizens who will not bow to political correctness and who refuse to be intimidated! I’m so glad for people like you who are educating us to what is happening throughout America!

  15. Thaaff says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    What mystifies me is why Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama has not been at least impeached, or even arrested because of the amazingly high number of treasonist, seditious acts he has committed against the US Constitution, America/s soveriegnty, and the citizens of this great Republic! How is it that he remains as POTUS while doing everything he can to weaken and destroy this nation? It is no secret that his so-called “elections” were nothing but fraudulent exercises in political corruption, and also that he is indeed a ranking member of the Muslim Brotherhood, along with his half-brother Malik Obama and other members of his alleged “family”, and that they, the MB, were directly responsible for his becoming the pretender-“president”! There are so many who are constantly scrambling to address the growing malignancy of this administration, and working tirelessly to uncover the seemingly endless layers of the vilest corruption that typifies every facet of Obama’s bogus “presidency”….WHY? Are we the people actually going to allow Obama and his minions to hold the White House hostage for the next year as he and they continue to drag this country into even lower depths? I am by no means suggesting that I have the solution to the damage already done, or that I would know how to go about getting this man removed from office; I am praying, however, that someone or some patriotic organization(s) will take the necessary steps to rid the United States of America of this clear and present danger once and for all!

    • kikorikid says

      Oct 29, 2015 at 12:11 am

      I very much agree with your statement.
      I do not think the USA will make it to one year from today W/O
      conflict: Obama’s Forces DHS, BLM, Islamist, et al. v. “WE THE PEOPLE”

      • Thaaff says

        Oct 29, 2015 at 5:49 pm

        You’ve got that right, kikorikid! There already is conflict whenever an American, or any so-called “infidel” challenges a Muslim for any reason, since they always rely upon out of control rages and bullying in their attempts to intimidate those who object to how they force their sick, demonic oppression and intolerance upon us! We know that Muslims are always antagonists, as those unfortunate, vulnerable people throughout Europe are finding out….but thankfully, there is NO WAY that Obama or anyone else will ever succeed in disarming the American people….not without an all-out Civil War! While Obama and the Fed are busy bringing into this country a virtual Islamic army, and since there will most likely be armed conflicts in various states across this Republic in defense of our Judeo-Christian heritage and our Constitution, we the people will NEVER be defeated because, although most Americans are yet unaware of this, reinforcements from unexpected places, most of whom are strong, Christian believers (many thousands of them, who will never bow down to the tyranny of Islam) are also streaming into this country, who will end up standing shoulder to shoulder with us against this growing darkness….and WE WILL have the victory! The US of A is far from over, as evidenced by Biblical prophesy, revealed in the book of Revelation, where America is the one and only country that will provide a safe haven for Israel, some years from now, when the rest of the world comes against them! Knowing this totally makes me feel hopeful and confident, and I hope that you might also feel the same way. God bless!

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