reaction of the chattanooga police department and other first responders who put a stop to this before it could have been worse. but, you know it points out the fact that we re all a community and we re all exposed. we re just a few moments away from getting a response from president obama in the oval office congressman, i want your reaction to what is unfolding on this horrible day in chattanooga chattanooga. it is a horrible day. it was confirmed that u.s. military bases were on force protection bravo. defined by the pentagon increased threat of terrorism. third highest level. isil has encouraged people to
you have to go through unbelievable procedures when something is at threat con bravo or force protection bravo when you have to go through the gates. it s difficult to get in. you can t have visitors. if you have visitors it takes them a long time to process personal information to get on these military cases, and it just makes it tough. it s unfortunate, but it s what we in the military call a condition of the battlefield. i command my last command was in europe and i left there in 2013 when i retired, and what s sad about overseas bases, the same rules are in effect and, in fact they ve been at force protection bravo for the last 15 years even though the united states just went to it last week or last month, but what s interesting is you lose the connection with the good people in the local society, and they lose the connection with what the military is and what it does for the society. that s part of the unfortunate second order effect of some of these closures of bases and more
enforcement to keep tabs on. it really is an expansion of how the internet has been used frankly for several years now, both in recruitment and radicalization of young people to join terrorist groups. let s bring in anthony lemieux investigator for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism and retired general. why raise the security level when they also say that there s no specific threat and time to it? let me fut in perspective. when i commanded force this is europe, we were continually at force protection bravo. what this means is you want more situational awareness, you want to practice some drills and security increases across bases. so what it means is you re going to have more i.d. card checks at
isis recruiters and last night the fbi director and the homeland security director held a secure conference call with local and state and law enforcement officials urging them to beef up their efforts to counter isis. alison and victor. thank you sun len. bravo is part of the force protection condition. a 5-tier threat level system overseen and decided by the department of defense. practically, what does bravo mean? what does it mean for military officials? jim sciutto will tell us. victor and alison, the new threat level is bravo. that s the middle threat in the scale increased and predictable threat of terrorism. delta tends to be when there s an actual attack under way. still, very rare in the u.s. it s a handful of times when we ve seen it for u.s. military installations. twice in 2003, early 2003 and al qaeda threat again around the holidays.
violent homegrown extremists. the security level has now increased to bravo. signifying an increased and predictable threat of terrorism. u.s. bases have not been on this level since the 10th anniversary of 9/11. not only do you have to secure on the bases but on the post-it self-. this is going to be a big operation for the security forces of all of the services. the texas shooting is highlighting the threat from isis supporters hiding within the united states. groups like isil or al qaeda now are calling publicly for attacks in the west of people who they would have never recruited specifically. they have never trained. never each met. someone could decide on their own to answer that call with little or no notice. u.s. authorities are investigating hundreds of people in the u.s. who have some social media link to isis. a severe challenge for law