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On Monday, the FBI charged Justin Sullivan with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist group as well as two weapons charges. Sullivan was planning to attack a public venue, such as a bar or a concert, with a rifle in support of the Islamic State (ISIS). This is the 71st Islamist terrorist plot or attack against the U.S. homeland since 9/11 according to publicly available information. It is the third plot foiled this month alone and part of an ongoing spike in terrorist activity within the U.S.

The U.S. must have the strategies and tools it needs to stop terrorists before they attack.

Remember merrick garland said this about investigating parents? >> i can't imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children nor can i imagine the circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism. >> todd: imagine it merrick garland whistle-blower claims the doj did come in fact my target parents who spoke out at school board meetings and used counterterrorism tools to do it. here to react who nearly parents and cofounder of the president, and mom's for america's senior director and amanda wright, a mo...

Yemen, in syria. so the question is do you need to have a large permanent position, you know, occupation of afghanistan to fight the war on terror and what president biden is arguing it is possible to fight the war on terror using counterterrorism tools, using special ops, using drones, using intelligence and you go to where they are and you hit them but then you don't sit there, and i think, you know, there is certainly many, many very effective counterterrorism operations that the united states has done in the last 20 years that have not required an in person presence in the sense that we ha...

Just an intercept, if it was just information that was collected through this program, but when we had to tell the country that they had to start taking their shoes off every time they got on an airplane, we declassified the intelligence about the plot and we explained and i remember when there were lobbying efforts under way to defend and protect these counterterrorism tools. they became very controversial during the bush presidency. we were all able to sort of help articulate some of that messaging. not only does it strike me that the people around the president, save for maybe bossert and k...