why and how is this type of investigation different? in this particular case, if there is a direct recruitment line. if you can find somebody in isis or in the past al shabaab and boka haram, you could find out who they re trying to recruit and the person who did the recruiting. the problem in this case is potentially we may have simply he s simply inspired by the rhetoric being inspired by ice isis. there s no way to make a determination before they act that they re going to act. this is all about trying to get in front of an attack, a terrorist operation. you can t do that in this case. this concept of a lone wolf or lone wolves is something that s very difficult to stop. that s what we re really talking about right now. one of the thins we hear so often is how sophisticated people have gotten in social
but to try to find a line that would have been the recruitment line is just so difficult to do right now. you isis in america retweets to raqqah. athere s 900 activists, 56 people who have been arrested. in 21 state, is there any commonality here. is there anything that might have been a clue in this case here in san bernadino. there s not necessarily a profile. we looked through 7,000 panls of legal documents to look at what makes these people tick, what demographics there are. we ve seen male, we ve seen female, we ve seen old, young, rich and poor. they tend to be younger, tho ugh. so the average age of the people we looked at was 26. 1/3 of the cases they were 21 years or younger.