Just Keep Ignoring Those Terrorist Threats

Can someone please explain to me how Ajelandro Mayorkas remains at the help of the Department of Homeland Security? Because I don't feel secure at all in my homeland, and he and Biden (as well as the "Border Czar, Kamala Harris) have done nothing to change that. Just as the public has been gaslighted into believing that COVID is over, they have also been convinced that we won't be attacked. Many of those people have either forgotten about the events of September 11, or else they no longer care.

If ISIS and Al Qaeda watched the presidential debate and saw Biden's alarming weakness, they must be emboldened to attack sooner rather than later, because nobody is going to prevent an attack from happening.

This is from Politico:

 ‘Urgency’ needed on terrorism threats, ex-CIA official says. “The American public needs to understand what the threat is,” Mike Morell said.

Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell warned Sunday that there is “a lack of sense of urgency” among the Biden administration and Congress to prevent the growing threat of terrorism in the United States.

“There needs to be a sense of urgency about this, and I think the American public needs to understand what the threat is. That’s why we called for a public congressional hearing just on the terrorist threats to the homeland,” Morell told host Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “We need to hear what the administration is doing about this in a broad sense.”

Earlier this month, Morell co-authored a piece titled “The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again” in Foreign Affairs, comparing present national security concerns to the lead-up to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. In the article, he pointed to the potential for attacks on U.S. soil motivated by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks and Israel’s war in Gaza, as well the vulnerability of the southern border.

As a CIA analyst, Morell delivered the President’s Daily Brief to then-President George W. Bush — including on the morning of 9/11. Offering warnings similar to the ones from then-CIA director George Tenet and Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda in the period before 9/11, Morell wrote in Foreign Affairs that current FBI director Christopher Wray and other senior officials have now been sounding the alarm.

Morell said Sunday that after publishing the article, the response was “almost universal” from current and former intelligence officers and policymakers, which he said signaled to him that there isn’t enough urgency from the Biden administration in addressing these threats.

He agreed that there is an issue of resources, especially as focus has shifted from counterterrorism to China. While Morell said this was “understandable to some degree,” he acknowledged “there’s a cost to the intelligence we’re collecting.

Morell also referenced a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report from June 7 that expressed a need for the department to improve its screening of asylum-seekers and noncitizens applying for admission into the U.S. Eight men from Tajikistan who were seen as potential terrorism threats were arrested earlier this month in different American cities; reports indicated that they had crossed through the southern border into the country.

“The vetting system, beyond not having the information, the vetting system does not provide all of the information that the government has,” Morell said. “So it’s lack of information, and it is the system itself.”

“There are all sorts of issues here that need to be resolved,” he added.